Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!mcvax!philmds!leo From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc Subject: Bug in Ultrix 2.0:setting the sticky bit Keywords: tricky sticky Message-ID: <552@philmds.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 13:01:54 GMT Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven Lines: 13 The open system call allows setting the sticky bit to non-root users, for example close(open(filename,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,512)); creates a file with sticky bit set. But, according to sticky(8): Only the super-user can set the sticky bit. B.T.W. the chmod(1) command does (correctly) not allow setting the sticky bit for non-root users. Leo.