Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:21:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: force O_LARGEFILE in sys_swapon() and sys_swapoff() |
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > For 32-bit, one quickly discovers that swapon() is not given an fd > already opened with O_LARGEFILE to act upon and the forcing of > O_LARGEFILE for 64-bit is irrelevant, as the system call's argument is > a path. So this patch manually forces it for swapon() and swapoff().
This one looks good, thanks. I'm not so sure of your more general patch to open, others know better on that.
I doubt huge amounts of swap work at all well when used, but you're really concerned with commit at present: of course it was silly not to have used O_LARGEFILE here.
Hugh
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