Re: [PATCH 2.6.28?] don't unlink an active swapfile

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:37:22AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Peter Cordes is sorry that he rm'ed his swapfiles while they were in use,
> he then had no pathname to swapoff.  It's a curious little oversight, but
> not one worth a lot of hackery.  Kudos to Willy Tarreau for turning this
> around from a discussion of synthetic pathnames to how to prevent unlink.
> Mimic immutable: prohibit unlinking an active swapfile in may_delete()
> (and don't worry my little head over the tiny race window).

Looks good (but I think I already said this before)

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