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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!mccuts!zlsiial
- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Maths emulation
- Message-ID: <5511@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:56:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.083757.4171@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Aug11.083757.4171@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> enu321d@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (A. Walker) writes:
- >Why is /tmp have the +t permission set (sticky bit?) . This is on
- >the 0.96c mcc-interim distribution.
-
- This means that if a file appears in /tmp, only its owner (or root or bin)
- can delete it.
-
- >Is the gcc profiler , gprof available for linux?
-
- Yes; it's in the binutils from the standard gcc distribution, along with
- a special library; it's not included in the MCC interim versions because
- it takes up a lot of space and has only limited utility (in my biased
- experience).
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-