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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sticky bit on files? Post 302509738 by Corona688 on Thursday 31st of March 2011 03:16:12 PM
Old 03-31-2011
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Originally Posted by newlinuxuser1
Is there a simple way to find, where this "sticky bit" functionality is located within kernel sources? Linux is famous to be "open source" so in a case I want to investigate this issue first hand, how can I find a particular piece of kernel (module, library?) that deals with this functionality.
Download a kernel tarball from kernel.org , extract it somewhere, and start grepping. I did enough looking to figure out that it's not called "sticky" inside the kernel.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

ibcm

ibcm(7D)							      Devices								  ibcm(7D)

NAME

       ibcm - Solaris InfiniBand Communication Manager

DESCRIPTION

       The  Solaris InfiniBand Communication Manager (IBCM) is a Solaris kernel misc module that adheres to the InfiniBand Architecture Specifica-
       tion, Volume 1: Release 1.1 for InfiniBand Communication Management Class.

       IBCM provides a transport layer abstraction to IB clients to set up reliable connected channels along with  service,  multicast,  and  path
       lookup-related  functionality.  IBCM implements the CM protocol as per the InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1 and
       utilizes the InfiniBand Management Framework module for all IB management-related functionality and the	InfiniBand  Transport  Layer  (see
       ibtl(7D)) for all IB Verbs-related functionality.

FILES

       /kernel/misc/ibcm

	   32-bit x86 ELF kernel module

       /kernel/misc/amd64/ibcm

	   64-bit x86 ELF kernel module

       /kernel/misc/sparcv9/ibcm

	   64-bit SPARC ELF kernel module

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attribute:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE		     |ATTRIBUTE VALUE		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     | Consolidation Private	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWhea			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), ibtl(7D)

       InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1

SunOS 5.10							    2 Apr 2004								  ibcm(7D)
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