On Thursday 29 July 2010 13:24:29 walt wrote: > On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: > > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch > > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)). > > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. > > Is the sticky bit set on /tmp? > > drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/ > ^
That will not make a difference. Sticky bit on a directory does not affect creation of files, only WHO may delete them (regardless of w permissions on /tmp) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
