Hi!
> >[David Feuer]
> > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that
> > > this is not the last link to a swapfile.
> >
> >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and
> >clear immutable bit. Sure it only works on ext2 but how far do you
> >want to take this thing?
>
> In a private email, linux@horizon.com wrote:
>
> >No; we should add some more magic-symlink /proc entries, like
> >/proc/<pid>/fd/<n> for swap files. Then they can be accessed
> >by swapoff even if they're deleted.
>
> Seems like a good idea to me...
We could make them opened by kswapd.
Pavel
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