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Re:Halfbakery by lscotte on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:28AM (#15676697)
I think you mean setuid bit. The sticky bit (on binaries) went away when we got VMM/swap.
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Re:Halfbakery by derefr on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:00PM (#15677578)
No, I'm talking about the sticky bit for directories: see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit#Usage

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid#sticky_bit

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