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To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
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Subject: Re: More on VM, swap leaks 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:57:28 -0700
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>
>>> It does install with the sticky bit set, but I thought that modern
>>> Unices ignored it as they try to keep everything in swap for as long
>>> as possible.
>
>>The VM system totally ignores the sticky bit for executables.
>
>I had always suspected as much.  Thanks for confirming this.  (Is this
>in 4.4BSD in general, or in FreeBSD, specifically?)

  It's only relavent to the old 4.3BSD VM system. When it got thrown out for
the Mach stuff in the "Net" release, the sticky bit on executables went with
it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project