Subject: bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?

From: Sven Joachim <[email-masked]>
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