Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why?

[Nate Eldredge]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:

> Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky bit 
>> set on the remote side.  (It's the historical Unix archive from tuhs.org; 
>> the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX installation, for 
>> which the sticky bit of course had meaning. :-) )  It's annoying that this 
>> makes rsync fail; it messes up my mirroring script.
>
> You can ask rsync to change file attributes on the fly with the --chmod 
> option. Just my 2c.

Thanks for this hint.  "--chmod=F-t" solves my problem.  But I am still 
curious about this behavior.

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Nate Eldredge
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