What does SUID, SGID and Sticky bits do on inappropriate files?

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Sat Dec 29 23:34:56 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec29.050330.3390 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>Even if it wasn't in memory, V7 built new process images (execve()) on swap,
>so things were generally closer together that way.  (But you already knew
>that, right?  The only reason I'm a "guru" is that there aren't many real ones
>in northern Ohio.)

More interestingly, the V7 swap space was all allocated contiguously
so that a text image could be loaded with a single I/O operation.  None
of this wasteful paging mess with pages laying all over the place ;-)
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