Sticky bit?

[Dave Gilbert]

In <6704 at navy28.UUCP> seda at motcid.UUCP (Joseph W. Seda) writes:

>What does the stick bit do?  I could look through all the man pages and probably
>still not find all the details.  Can someone help?

As far as I'm aware what it does is do something like try and keep programs
in memory -so that say you have 20 people using vi on a machine, it ould
only hold 1 copy and also it would keep  it in memory so its available immediatly

Dave (I think I'm correct?)


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