sticky bit?

[Trevor Smith]

On Monday 05 January 2004 9:50 pm, Le Hong Boi wrote:
> Read in man page of chmod
> STICKY FILES
>        On  older  Unix  systems,  the sticky bit caused executable files to
> be hoarded in swap space.  This feature is not useful on  modern  VM  sys-
> tems, and the Linux kernel ignores the sticky bit on files.  Other ker-
> nels may use the sticky bit on files for system-defined  purposes.   On
> some systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit on files.

Excellent! Thanks. That will teach me to get my info from a book from 1997/98!