Re: sticky bit on files?

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 04:08:41 EST


On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:05:48PM -0700, jeremy brand <jeremy@nirvani.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the linux kernel (2.2
> specifically) keeps files with
> the sticky bit set in memory, or is the `t` bit
> just still there for

No (unix-) kernel ever kept files in memory, but instead held it in swap
space.

Linux does not have swap space (it does paging, which technically is not
the same as swapping processes out), so the concept of the sticky bit
makes no sense.

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