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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        vladimir@math.uic.edu
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chmod behavior
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909211548420.19159-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990921202958.23881.qmail@math.uic.edu>

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On 21 Sep 1999 vladimir@math.uic.edu wrote:

> 
> I thought that doing
> chmod +t dir
> should set the sticky bit on the directory.   At least this seems
> to follow from the man page for chmod).   chmod +t dir does the 
> expected thing on a solaris machine.    On a freebsd machine, 
> chmod a+t dir works fine.   Is it a bug, or a wrong manpage, or 
> am I missing something?

	It looks like a bug to me. Please send in a PR for it.

Thanks,

Doug
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