sticky bit obsolete?

Bob Devine devine at vianet.UUCP
Fri Aug 8 10:33:00 AEST 1986


  Here is a question to people porting UNIX (and derivatives) to fast
machines:  is the sticky bit idea worthwhile?   That is, on machines
with slow disks it was worth keeping the text in the swap area, but,
with faster disks and more memory, has the sticky bit become obsolete?

Bob



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