Bug in swapfs (2.4.0-ac9)

Gregor Jasny (gjasny@wh8.tu-dresden.de)
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:19:26 +0100


I think I've found a bug in swapfs:

fstab:
swapfs /dev/shm swapfs defaults 0 0
swapfs /tmp swapfs defaults 0 0

When I hit <enter> on a tar.gz file in Midnight Commander nothing happens. If
I do a umonut /tmp and hit <enter> again it works as It should (I see the
archived files).
Nearly the same Problem with the Acrobat Reader pluin for Netscape. It shows
only a blank page when /tmp is swapfs.

I've noticed that it's possible to mount /tmp more than once. mount shows then
[snip]
swapfs on /dev/shm type swapfs (rw)
swapfs on /tmp type swapfs (rw)
swapfs on /tmp type swapfs (rw)
swapfs on /tmp type swapfs (rw)
swapfs on /tmp type swapfs (rw)

The permissions for /tmp are rwxrwxrwt, and even -omode=777,exec didn't help.

Any Ideas?

-Gregor
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