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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:10:23 +0200
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On Thursday 29 July 2010 13:24:29 walt wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
> > /tmp/foo =>  strerror(ENOENT)).
> > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
> 
> Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?
> 
> drwxrwxrwt  26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/
>           ^


That will not make a difference.
Sticky bit on a directory does not affect creation of files, only WHO may 
delete them (regardless of w permissions on /tmp)



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