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Re: swapon using _SERVERS_DEFPAGER


From: Roland McGrath
Subject: Re: swapon using _SERVERS_DEFPAGER
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:19:52 -0400 (EDT)

> Why are we checking err unconditionally here, this just makes the above
> code completly useless, because the call to get_privileged_ports will
> fail, then _SERVERS_DEFPAGER is looked up, but err is not set to 0 again,
> so the following if succeeds.

Thanks, I fixed that.

>  Also, if swapon can now be used by a user to add swap space, a swap file
> perhaps 
> , shouldn't swapon be moved to [hurd]/utils?

No.  It can only be used by a user with write permission on
/servers/default-pager.



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