From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC] userland swsusp
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:23:51 -0600
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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:07, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I'm curious on the restrictions the userspace part would have to accept.
> > Can /usr/swsusp.c write to a file? Currently, you allow it, but I doubt
>
> No. Writing to file would trash the filesystem. But you can bmap the file,
> then write to the block device.

Do/should all the filesystems get remounted read-only as a precaution?  Or is 
that overkill?

Rob
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