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From: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapoff weird
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 17:46:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001209174435.00aaf310@postoffice.brown.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001209222427.A1542@bug.ucw.cz>

At 10:24 PM 12/9/2000 +0100, you wrote:d
>It is possible to remove swapfile in use. Great, but how do you swap
>off then? Who is to blame?

Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that this is 
not the last link to a swapfile.  Are there any other sorts of files that 
don't belong to any user process and may remain active after unlink?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-09 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-09 21:24 swapoff weird Pavel Machek
2000-12-09 21:41 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-09 22:06   ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-09 22:41     ` David Ford
2000-12-09 22:46 ` David Feuer [this message]
2000-12-10  7:56   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-10  9:10   ` David Feuer
2000-12-15 18:32     ` Pavel Machek

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