Talk:Sticky bit

message: A few things to cover before de-stubbing:
* dates for "historically"
* specific OS interpretations of the bit
* examples of setting it (chmod calls)
* wikilinks
** there must be a page describing the traditional UNIX permission octets
** 'see also' -- ACLs?
* No specific mention of Linux and what it might do on that
* more precise categorisation (I have to admit I am not sure what appropriate categories may exist) -- Jon Dowland 15:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnamed section 

message: There seems to be at least two types if "sticky bit."  For reference, see this page:
http://www.gnulamp.com/stickybit.html
It would appear that we need to have two different "sticky bit" pages with some disambiguation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.25.240.225 (talk) 16:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different sticky bits. 

message: I'm unsure of whether Mac OS X follows the traditional way for executables, or ignores it. See , which says "The sticky bit has no effect on executable files. All optimization on whether text images remain resident in memory is handled by the kernel's virtual memory system." But then there's the other man page linked to in the existing article , which says "The ISVTX (the sticky bit) indicates to the system which executable files are shareable (the default) and the system maintains the program text of the files in the swap area." 71.90.130.7 (talk) 05:36, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac OS X 

message: The feature is documented and published for 4.3BSD: is there a published source for SunOS 3.0?  If not, there is no reason to suppose that other editors can verify any statements made regarding this. For what it's worth, 4.3BSD's manual page was updated February 2, 1986, while SunOS 3.0 was released 2 weeks later. TEDickey (talk) 21:14, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I received my copy of SunOS-3.0 December 27 1985. Schily (talk) 22:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  That isn't verifiable, since you did not mention a published source, is irrelevant. TEDickey (talk) 23:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  That is extremely verifiable: The first Sun 3/75 have been manufactured December 24 1985 and delivered to H.Berthold AG on December 27 1985 together with the required SunOS-3.0. We can safely assume that the other large Sun OEM (Kodak) did receive their samples at the same time and I would call a delivery to more than one external target "publishing". Well, I of course know that you ignore any reality that you don't like... but this is your problem. Schily (talk) 15:27, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  As usual, you respond with further unsourced statements.  If you had a usable source, you would have used it in your other edits. TEDickey (talk) 01:16, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  As usual, you are not constructive and ignore verifiable facts just because you don't like them. Schily (talk) 11:44, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  You missed a step: you forgot to point out the verifiable, reliable source to support your comments. TEDickey (talk) 01:37, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  origin of sticky bit 

message: There is also a completely unrelated "sticky bit" technique used in floating-point arithmetic for ensuring correct rounding in addition and subtraction. I've added a hatnote to point to the appropriate section of the floating point article, but sadly the concept is only mentioned there in passing, not explained in detail. There doesn't seem to be any detailed explanation for it anywhere on the English Wikipedia. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking good to me, thank you. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 13:02, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added a hatnote for the unrelated concept from floating-point arithmetic 

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replies: text: , the link above works fine. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 13:01, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article currently says "Solaris appears to have abandoned this in 2005.[citation needed]" for the historical use of saving programs in memory - is there any reason to believe it was still in use that late?  A 1998 SunWorld article from Jim Mauro says that even then, "As far as the sticky bit and executable files go, Solaris no longer implements the traditional "save-text-in-swap" functionality that originated with the sticky bit" (archived at http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-04-1998/swol-04-insidesolaris.html since SunWorld/UnixInsider seems to have blocked the Internet Archive). Alanc (talk) 22:30, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solaris