Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

[Kurt J. Lidl]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:41:05AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr at lava.net> wrote:
> [snip]
> >   Can anybody confirm for me that the suid, sgid, and sticky bit are in
> > fact no-ops for FreeBSD on regular non-executable files, as it appears
> > they should be?
> 
> how about the use of hard link which is not os depedent ?

Then you have twice as many directory entries for the system to manage,
which might be a resource hog if you have many files.

-Kurt