Subject: Re: How to chmod of recusive directory with a sticky bit
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/2002 09:36:51
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Greywolf wrote:

: <something I wish the various UNIces could standardise on (which nobody
: currently implements) is how to set a bit so that nobody can create
: subdirectories in the current directory, but they could create and
: delete files to their heart's content.  I thought set-uid on a
: directory would be useful for that purpose.>

This could be implemented in NetBSD rather trivially with a chflags bit.

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