Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:06:15 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: buglet in ext2 sticky bit? |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Jan Kara wrote:
> > AFAIK a file writable for everyone should be deletable when > > +t on the parent dir.
> As far as I know this is correct behaviour... Rights on deleted file > have no impact on its unlinking (OK, with the exception to the > IMMUTABLE and APPEND bits...) - what matters is *only* a directory. > When it has sticky bit set than file can be deleted only by its owner > or owner of the directory.
Intestingly, this works on Solaris 2.6 (both tmpfs and ufs).
I seem to be able to delete any file in /tmp which I own _or_ can write to.
Stevens' APUE doesn't mention this feature, so I'd be tempted to call it a bug in Solaris (can't test other OSes, unfortunately).
Matthew.
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