Hi, On Tue, 25 May, 1999 à 11:51:00PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > >On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: > >The sticky bit (chmod +t) on a directory just makes it so that anyone can > wr > >ite > >to that directory but not modify files they did not make. > > Not quite. It does mean that you cannot delete files that you do not own, > but you may still be able to alter them. > > In order to delete any file, you need write permission on the directory it > is in. If the sticky bit is set in the directory permissions, you also > need to own the file itself before you can delete it. If the sticky bit is > [...] > -rw------- 1 olly olly 422 May 25 15:50 .exmhaudit.1406 > -rw-rw-rw- 1 olly olly 0 May 25 22:58 junk > ^ > |____ This is the link count; for a file it shows how many hard > links there are to it; for a directory, on some Unixes, it shows the number > of files in the directory - I don't know what it is showing on Linux (there > are 18 files and sub-directories in my /tmp rather than 7). > It shows the number of directories in the directory (. and .. included) and it does correspond to the number of link as each of this directory includes a link to its parent directory (.. is this link). BTW the missing link is the entry of the directory itself in its parent directory and not .. indeed.
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