On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:47:51PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :How about renaming swapon(8) into swapctl(8) after this function enhancemen= > :t? > :This name reflects it's purpose much better and would be consistent with the > :other BSDs. > : > :- Christian > > I think that's an excellent idea. We would have to do some > rewriting to add the expected options but it would not be too > difficult to do. Mainly just grunt work. e.g. the NetBSD swapctl > command is this: > > swapctl -A [-p priority] [-t blk|noblk] > -D dumpdev > -U [-t blk|noblk] > -a [-p priority] path > -c -p priority path > -d path > -l | -s [-k] > -z > swapon -a | path > > And the OpenBSD swapctl command is this: > > swapctl -A [-p priority] [-t blk|noblk] > swapctl -a [-p priority] path > swapctl -c -p priority path > swapctl -d path > swapctl -l | -s [-k] > swapon -a | path > > We would simply ignore priority since we don't support it, nor would we > need a -t option since we do not have buffered block devices any more > or a -c option since, again, we do not have priorities. > > I would keep 'swapoff' in anycase. It's an obvious command and like > swapon could simply wind up being a hardlink to swapctl. > > I am not volunteering to do this, at least not right now. I have too > big a stack of things that still need to be committed, but if someone > else would like to tackle this I think it would be a nice little project > for a developer with some free time to waste and I would be happy to > review and test the work. > > -Matt > >
I'll look into that when some of my current work is done. Maybe it's worth an entry in PHK's JKH TODO list for now. - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D GPG Key ID : 0xA0ED982D
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