sticky bit?

[Peter Kiem]

> Anyone know what a "sticky bit" is actually used for? Anything?

If you look at the permissions on /tmp you will see it is drwxrwxrwt - the
t on the end is a sticky bit.

Those permissions say even though anyone can read/write to /tmp they
cannot mess with files that don't belong to them, only their own files.

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