sticky bit?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:05AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote:
> > Anyone know what a "sticky bit" is actually used for? Anything?
> 
> If you look at the permissions on /tmp you will see it is drwxrwxrwt - the
> t on the end is a sticky bit.
> 
> Those permissions say even though anyone can read/write to /tmp they
> cannot mess with files that don't belong to them, only their own files.

They can if they have permissions for it. What they can't do is unlink
it.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha