Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:11:36PM +1100, Damien wrote:
> i remember reading somewhere that the sticky bit could be used to instruct
> certain unixs to permanently cache a program. is this the case with linux? if
> not, can anyone offer any alternative solutions?

No, nor has it been supported in any version of Unix that I know of
since the days when PDP-11/70's were hot.

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