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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: There is an error in chmod(1)
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 Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:58:56 +0400, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
 > On 15 July 2013 00:19, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> wrote:
 > > There is an error in the chmod(1) man page.
 > > tingo@kg-v2$ uname -a
 > > FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #6: Fri Apr 27 23:50:55 CEST 2012
 > >     root@kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 > > tingo@kg-v2$ apropos ^sticky
 > > sticky(7)                - sticky text and append-only directories
 > > tingo@kg-v2$ man 1 chmod | grep sticky
 > >            1000    (the sticky bit).  See chmod(2) and sticky(8).
 > >            t       The sticky bit.
 > >      setmode(3), symlink(7), chown(8), mount(8), sticky(8)
 > >
 > 
 > This was fixed in head (and appeared in 9.x) but never merged to 8.
 > I just merged the related change to 8-STABLE (the stable/8 branch).
 > Thanks for reporting!

At least on 8-STABLE the residual error was only in chmod(1) .. back on 
8.2-R - and at least back to 5.5-STABLE - it really was sticky(8) :)

cheers, Ian