Re: [RFC] userland swsusp

From: Rob Landley
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 03:31:25 EST


On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:07, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I'm curious on the restrictions the userspace part would have to accept.
> > Can /usr/swsusp.c write to a file? Currently, you allow it, but I doubt
>
> No. Writing to file would trash the filesystem. But you can bmap the file,
> then write to the block device.

Do/should all the filesystems get remounted read-only as a precaution? Or is
that overkill?

Rob
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