crazy swapping

Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:37:26 +0100 (MET)

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When you create a file that have holes (using
creat();lseek(10000000);write("xxx");close()), and make it swap file,
system crashes and you get "rw_swap_page: bad swap file" message. Tested
on 2.0.33 and 2.1.129.

Mikulas Patocka

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