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From:	Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc:	walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:03:10
Message-Id:	`201007291410.23590.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file by walt

1	On Thursday 29 July 2010 13:24:29 walt wrote:
2	> On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
3	> > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
4	> > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)).
5	> > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
6	>
7	> Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?
8	>
9	> drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/
10	> ^
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13	That will not make a difference.
14	Sticky bit on a directory does not affect creation of files, only WHO may
15	delete them (regardless of w permissions on /tmp)
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20	alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com