From: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au> > >Shouldn't that be 'chmod +t /bin/sh' ??? > > Definitely. Why waste a new bit when there's already a perfectly good > one that is (or was) defined for the purpose. the 't' bit was known as the 'sticky' bit to keep frequently used, sharable (judged by a human) text segments in core. since then that bit has been overloaded to death. shared libraries have always been a mistake. one clear reason is that it caused a dichotomy of binaries; static vs dynamically linked. think about a dynamically linked init(8) ...Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 11:54:34 UTC
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