The original meaning of the sticky bit was ``keep the program around in
swap space''.
or to be pedantic: 'keep the programme in backing store'. Where
backing store would be something like a page cache.
The question is if any current systems still implement
the sticky bit semantics ...
probably the more traditional 'backing store' type swap Unices still
do. Not sure which though. And i think the 'sticky bit for files' on
solaris has the opposite effect, ie it prevents the file from being
cached in any way.
Ralf
regards,
-- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie http://hibernia.clubi.ie PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt ------------------------------------------- Fortune: UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum
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