Re: The stickybit!!

[Jagadeesh Bhaskar P <jbhaskar@hclinsys.com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:04, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 12:04:36 +0530, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P <jbhaskar@hclinsys.com>
> wrote in message <1103265276.6880.8.camel@myLinux>:
> > Hi,
> > 	Though it is known that stickybit is obsolete, im just curious to see
> > the effect of setting a sticky bit on an executable file.
> 
> It isn't obsolete. It's a rarely used feature that's actually quite
> important. Most of the time, you can try to work around it, but the
> sticky bit will most probably just stay as it is.
> 
> > 	Is there a way to findout the data if residing in swap area after the
> > process is terminated, using a C program??
> 
> Not (easily), at last. You can try to open the swap area(s) with
> O_DIRECT and prepare a copy of it. However, you don't know which pages
> were owned by the terminated process formerly so you only can step
> through all the bytes and hope to find something useful...
Im not able to get that part completely. Can a bit more explanation be
given!!

> MfG, JBG
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With regards,

Jagadeesh Bhaskar P