Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:03:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn swapfiles deleted while in use Message-ID: <199906141803.LAA11413@apollo.backplane.com> References: <86vhcr3bav.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <199906140701.AAA06746@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpk8t7f7rf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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:> vn node, you will blow the system up when the system tries
:> to swap something in or out on that file.
:
:Is there any possibility of adding a reference count to the vn device
:so it can't be unconfigured if it's still referenced?
:
:Is there any possibility of implementing a compulsory (as opposed to
:advisory) file locking system, so vn swapfiles can't be truncated or
:written to by any other process while it's in use?
:
:DES
Sure. We could probably do the same thing we do for active binaries.
It's pretty low on my list, though.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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