[Pm-utils] [patch] fix pm-reset-swap

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Wed Mar 14 05:37:07 PDT 2007


On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:52:45PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:26:15 +0100
> Stefan Seyfried <seife at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > pm-reset-swap is dangerously broken right now. This is the "rc = 1" hunk.
> > 
> > Additinally, it does not fix userspace suspend images.
> > The third hunk is more a cosmetic issue, i'm not passionate about it.
> 
> FWIW, I'm not installing pm-reset-swap in debian. The version of swapon
> in debian checks if it finds any of the know three (four?) swsusp
> signatures, and resets it to swap if it finds one.

Yes, this is probably the best approach, i'll try to get something like
that into our util-linux package, too.

However, pm-reset-swap as it is in CVS is really dangerous, so it should
either be removed or fixed.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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"Well, surrounding them's out." 


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