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True. Thanks for clarification. Actually, I never understood why "sticky bit" is called that way, wikipedia article gives an answer:

  The sticky bit was introduced in the Fifth Edition of Unix 
  in 1974 for use with pure executable files. When set, it 
  instructed the operating system to retain the text segment
  of the program in swap space after the process exited.
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