Re: swapoff weird

From: David Feuer (David_Feuer@brown.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2000 - 17:46:16 EST

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At 10:24 PM 12/9/2000 +0100, you wrote:d
>It is possible to remove swapfile in use. Great, but how do you swap
>off then? Who is to blame?

Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that this is
not the last link to a swapfile. Are there any other sorts of files that
don't belong to any user process and may remain active after unlink?

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