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From: maverick@encap.hanse.de (Jan-Oliver Neumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] sticky-bit ?!?
Date: 7 Feb 1993 18:26:48 +0100
Organization: Hanse Networking e.V., Hamburg, Germany.
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clu@malihh.hanse.de (Carsten Lutz) writes:

>Moin !
Moin!

>Why can't I set the sticky-bit on directories ? Is this a known bug or
>do I missing something ?

>lemmoncurry:/ (104) > chmod +t tmp

Try chmod a+t and it works. The reason for this is in setmode() from the
libc.
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature... :)

Best regards, Jan
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