sticky directory [solved]

[Andy Pieters]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:51, Paul Howarth wrote:

> The "sticky" refers to the "sticky" or "t" bit shown in the directory
> permissions:
>
> # ls -ld /dev/shm
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 40 May  7 14:47 /dev/shm
>
> Permissions set up like this enable anyone to create new files and
> directories in this directory, but only the owner of a file or directory
> can remove them. You'll find that /tmp is set up the same way.
Thanks that makes it clear for me.

Andy
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