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  From: Mohamed Ismail Mohamed-Ibrahim <mi-mi@sbs.itc.usm.my>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:10:16 +0800 (MYT)

Re: Permissions

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Alan Kennington wrote:

!Hmmm.
!That's very odd.
!If you type "chmod u+t <filename>" on a sunos/solaris system, the
!stick bit it set.
!But on a linux system, you have to type "chmod o+t <filename>".
!That matches up better with the "ls" listing.
!But why is it different....?

Well, it worked. Thanks Alan.
As to why.....I can only suspect that maybe it's because we're giving
everybody (other) permissions, whereas with 's', it's only for the owner
of the file...as with giving suid root permissions??? I'm really groking
in the dark here :-)

Cheers,
- mael -
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