Now I suppose that this makes sense, after all:
1. I can't assume ownership since I could then change perms.
2. Root owns the file, so I can't delete it.
3. I could delete it from my home directory since I own that.
----> but in /tmp the sticky bit is set.
This suggests that the sticky bit already DOES imply different
semantics here. I can create all the links I want of files into
/tmp but cannot remove them.
IMHO --> The current semantics are inconsistent.
The idea of the sticky bit is that you can create and delete
your _own_ files. This semantic is ignore by link(2), which is
using the semantic for a privately owned non-sticky directory.
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