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Re: netbsd-5-rc1 crash in pmap_enter



On Sat Feb 07 2009 at 00:03:34 +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> Hmm. If it's also a swap file or something equally wacky? That would
> probably break already.

You mean doing O_DIRECT writes to a swap file from an application?  Yes,
I would expect something else to break too ;)

(do we even allow applications to open an in-use swap file?  should we?
should we revoke access to a swapfile before turning it on?)


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