On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:33:01AM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Yes, that is also what I meant. We now have a swapoff() system call that
> > does all the work itself.
> > 
> > My idea was to split that up:
> > 
> > /* turn of swap device */
> > static int swapoff_one(struct swdevt *sp)
> > {
> >   /* Do all things that we don't want to know about outside this function
> >      */
> > }
> > 
> > /* turn off all swap devices */
> > int swapoff_all()
> > {
> >   int index;
> >     struct swdevt *sp;
> > 
> >   for (sp = swdevt, index = 0; index < nswdev; index++, sp++)
> >     swapoff_one(sp);
> > }
> > 
> > So the swapoff() system call would call swapoff_one() and my code in
> > kern/kern_swsuspend.c would call swapoff_all().
> 
> See swapoff(8), in particular the -a flag.

I'm aware of that, but imho it doesn't suite my purpose. Are you strongly
against having such code inside the kernel?

Mark

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Mark Santcroos                    RIPE Network Coordination Centre
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