On Wednesday, May 31, 2000, at 06:15 AM, Alain Jourez wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I beleive the sticky bit was used historically to prevent a whole
> process to be swapped. What is the precise meaning of it ?
The 'sticky' bit was, historically, intended to keep an executable's swap
image around after the last process using it exited. This behavior was an
optimization in a time when reading a swap image was noticeably faster than
performing an 'exec'.
For its current meaning, try 'man sticky'.
Regards,
Justin
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