Re: chmod of active swap file blocks

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Paul Jakma wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Trying to chmod a file being used for swap causes chmod() to block,
> with permissions change /not/ having taken effect, until the swap
> file is swapoff'd, at which point chmod() carries on and chmod (the
> command) finishes.

err.. forgot kernel version: this occurs with Arjan's 
2.6.0-0.test11.1.100 and .102 RPM packages of the 2.6.0 kernel. I 
have not tried on a generic 2.6.0 kernel, though I am about to try 
Arjan's 2.6.0-1.104 package.

regards,
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