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DateWed, 22 Jan 1997 01:40:11 -0500 (EST)
FromIon Badulescu <>
SubjectRe: Does linux locks swap file?
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Fabio Olive Leite wrote:

> Couldn't /proc/swaps help in taking care of this? In the most horrible
> case, swapoff could just recreate the file pointing to the same inode, or
> do some other hack based on /proc/swaps' information...

/proc/swaps could display the [device:inode] pair, no problem, but from
here to creating a new file using that pair, especially that the pair IS
STILL IN USE, is a long, hard, unportable and simply dain bramaged way to
go.

P.S. You could try to undelete the file, but even that is
filesystem-specific. 

P.P.S. There are hundreds of ways of crashing a machine as (stupid) root,
so this "problem" is just a minor nuisance. Especially that it doesn'c
actually crash it. :)


Ionut

--
  It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
            than to open it and remove all doubt.


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