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From: robert@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Bug in Ultrix 2.0:setting the sticky bit
Keywords: tricky sticky Sun
Message-ID: <472@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 88 13:02:20 GMT
References: <552@philmds.UUCP> <241@pigs.UUCP> <3341@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: robert@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Evans)
Organization: Univ. Coll. Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
Lines: 28

In article <3341@palo-alto.DEC.COM> vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:
>In article <241@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
># In article <552@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
># >The open system call allows setting the sticky bit to non-root users,
># >for example [ using Ultrix ]

The same feature can be observed on a Sun (3/160) running SunOS 3.5:

Script started on Thu Jul 14 13:51:31 1988
geometry% cat bug.c
#include 
main ()
{
        close (open ("bug.test", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 01000));
        perror ("bug.test");
}
geometry% cc -o bug bug.c
geometry% bug
bug.test: Error 0
geometry% ls -l bug.test
---------t  1 robert          0 Jul 14 13:52 bug.test
geometry%
script done on Thu Jul 14 13:52:13 1988
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