Mika, Could you phrase your suggested change as a patch?
Thanks, Michael Michael Prokop wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.62-1 > Severity: minor > > Quoting swapon(2): > > | EINVAL The file path exists, but refers neither to a regular file nor to a > block device; or, for swapon(), > | the indicated path does not contain a valid swap signature; or, > for swapoff(), path is not cur‐ > | rently a swap area. > > That's not true if the file is on a tmpfs. > > Demonstration: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1024 count=100000 > 100000+0 records in > 100000+0 records out > 102400000 bytes (102 MB) copied, 0.373442 seconds, 274 MB/s > # mkswap /tmp/swap > Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 102395 kB > no label, UUID=40138114-e7e5-4999-9d94-0a457e320199 > # file /tmp/swap > /tmp/swap: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 24999 pages > # chmod 0600 /tmp/swap > # swapon /tmp/swap > swapon: /tmp/swap: Invalid argument > # /usr/bin/stat -f -c %T /tmp > tmpfs > > IMHO that fact should be mentioned in the manpage. > > regards, > -mika- > > -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
