From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 17:02:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2O5xKFdwzLHWiUSKrusAeQpjKWsRgttuay7hRgxR98SMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jnsa6q$ube$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote:
>
> <excellent help snipped for brevity>
>
>> Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation
>
> That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely
> not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details?
>
>> As for security, having a swap is less
>> secure than having none: a malicious persion could extract
>> information from programs memory which was swapped
>
> BTW, man mkswap says nothing about proper file permissions for a swapfile.
> I'm guessing that only root should be able to read the file?
>
>
Actually it looks like it may be possible, depending on which method
you use for suspending. Here's a kernel document talking about using
swap files and swsusp:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-02 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-02 18:53 [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles? walt
2012-05-02 20:31 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-02 20:33 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-02 20:58 ` Simon
2012-05-02 21:50 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-02 22:02 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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