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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] userland swsusp
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:23:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511210023.51457.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051116190715.GF2193@spitz.ucw.cz>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 16:00 [RFC] userland swsusp Stefan Rompf
2005-11-16 19:07 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-17  7:19   ` Stefan Rompf
2005-11-17 10:01     ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-21  6:23   ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-11-21 14:14     ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-15 21:29 Pavel Machek

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