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Old 01-18-2010
Thanks Ceubank for the reply.

Actually I'd like to say sorry for dragging so many people into this...I just found out the directory owner was changed to the userid just one second before that I did the delete, that's why I got the impression why I could delete someone else's file without the permission being set...that was silly I should have checked back the dir permission first for the doubt.
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sticky

STICKY(7)					       BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual						 STICKY(7)

NAME

     sticky -- sticky text and append-only directories

DESCRIPTION

     A special file mode, called the sticky bit (mode S_ISTXT), is used to indicate special treatment for directories.	It is ignored for regular
     files.  See chmod(2) or the file <sys/stat.h> for an explanation of file modes.

STICKY DIRECTORIES

     A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory, or, more accurately, a directory in which the deletion of files is
     restricted.  A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the
     user is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user.  This feature is usefully applied to directories such as /tmp
     which must be publicly writable but should deny users the license to arbitrarily delete or rename each others' files.

     Any user may create a sticky directory.  See chmod(1) for details about modifying file modes.

HISTORY

     A sticky command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.

BUGS

     Neither open(2) nor mkdir(2) will create a file with the sticky bit set.

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