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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions,relcom.fido.ru.unix Subject: Re: Strange things happen... Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:13:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <572r6v$moi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <56791g$i7s@mx.iki.rssi.ru> <32881078.4287@cs.tamu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.unix.wizards:5814 comp.unix.admin:50756 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31389 comp.unix.questions:91752 Yu Feng <yfeng@cs.tamu.edu> wrote: > Is it possible that he ran a program which has "t"(stick bit) > set? Huh? Your suspicion is entirely bogus... even in the days when the sticky bit had a true meaning, it's only been that the image of the file has been kept in the swap space for faster reference. It never implied that a process remained running. (Almost all implementations effectively or explicitly ignore this bit today, for executables i mean.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)