GNU bug report logs - #7590
23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:52:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 23.2.90

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:43:22 +0000

On OSX, build emacs with X11, I see the following:

Victoria:bin admin$ ls -lh emacs*
-rwxr-xr-t  2 admin  staff    13M May 23  2010 emacs
-rwxr-xr-t  2 admin  staff    13M May 23  2010 emacs-23.2

Wikipedia says it's a NOP and according to sticky(8) it has no effect on
OSX because the kernel knows better than you about stuff like that now.

Leo
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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:36:15 +0100

On 2010-12-08 12:43 +0100, Leo wrote:

> On OSX, build emacs with X11, I see the following:
>
> Victoria:bin admin$ ls -lh emacs*
> -rwxr-xr-t  2 admin  staff    13M May 23  2010 emacs
> -rwxr-xr-t  2 admin  staff    13M May 23  2010 emacs-23.2

The toplevel Makefile sets this up, search for "chmod 1755".

> Wikipedia says it's a NOP and according to sticky(8) it has no effect on
> OSX because the kernel knows better than you about stuff like that now.

I guess this holds for almost every halfway modern system.  On
GNU/Linux, the sticky bit has always been ignored for non-directories.

Sven
bug closed, send any further explanations to 7590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> Request was from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:34:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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