Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:01:35 +0100 | Subject | 1.3.71: swapper problem |
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I'm currently debugging version 2.0 of fdisk. Therefore I deleted my swap partition and converted it into an extended partition. Obviously the swap signature remained still there.
Thus when trying the swapon system call, the kernel compained about an attempt to access behind the end of the device (swap partition). Then nothing worked. Pressing some magic keys showed that the process running is the swapper.
I think the swapon algoritm should not only check the magic signature, but also the size of the partition. If the partition is smaller than the signature suggests, the system call should fail (much more gracefully).
Ulrich Windl
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