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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: Questions and suggestions
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 10:16:44 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9406051208.AA02932@topo.matups.fr>; from "Thierry Bousch" at Jun 5, 94 02:08:36 pm
-
- Thierry Bousch wrote:
-
- > > 6: What about implementing a SysV-style sticky-bit on directories? On
- > > SysV, when the sticky bit is set on a directory, you can't delete files
- > > in it even if you have write permission on the directory. You must have
- > > write permission to the file itself also.
- >
- > Torsten Scherer has submitted a patch to handle the sticky bit in the
- > kernel, but this patch hasn't been integrated into MiNT. It worked,
- > anyway... Note that the RAMFS filesystem implements the sticky bit (as
- > well as the setgid bit) for directories.
-
- Oh, I'm very well thinking of doing it again, together with a full
- implementation of supplementary groups, but not with the current MiNT
- 1.10.beta.fix.me.patch.what.you.like... ;-)
-
- In my view, *half* of the patch has gone into it, introducing the "elm
- can't delete its lockfile" problem, but not the other half, curing this
- problem... :-(
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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