🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <552@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>The open system call allows setting the sticky bit to non-root users,
>for example [ using Ultrix ]
>
>   close(open(filename,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,512));
>
>creates a file with sticky bit set. But, according to sticky(8):
>
>     Only the super-user can set the sticky bit.

just finished trying it here and the results are:

Script started on Wed Jul  6 17:18:14 1988
1 - pigs-> cat bug.c
#include <fcntl.h>
main ()
{
	close (open ("bug.test", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 01000));
	perror ("bug.test");
}
2 - pigs-> cc -o bug bug.c
C-68000 1.8.0 Copyright (c)1985,1986 Green Hills Software, Inc.
3 - pigs-> bug
bug.test: Error 0
4 - pigs-> ls -l bug.test
----------   1 haugj    sys            0 Jul  6 17:18 bug.test
5 - pigs-> 
script done on Wed Jul  6 17:19:02 1988

nope, no bug here.  must be an ultrix value added feature ;-)

- john.
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