Re: chmod of active swap file blocks

[Paul Jakma <paul _at_ xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Perhaps swapon should automagically do a chmod and chown on all
> swapfiles, unless specifically asked to be wildly insecure (perhaps
> with a -W option -- wildly insecure swapfile permissions are
> considered acceptable)....

There's no sane reason to have open swap files, so yes, above 
behaviour would be good.

>  -Erik

regards,
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