At 01:56 AM 12/10/2000 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>[David Feuer]
> > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that
> > this is not the last link to a swapfile.
>
>Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and
>clear immutable bit. Sure it only works on ext2 but how far do you
>want to take this thing?
In a private email, linux@horizon.com wrote:
>No; we should add some more magic-symlink /proc entries, like
>/proc/<pid>/fd/<n> for swap files. Then they can be accessed
>by swapoff even if they're deleted.
Seems like a good idea to me...
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