Re: wait until swapoff is actually finished (it returns too early)?

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: wait until swapoff is actually finished (it returns too early)?
Date	2024-08-21 15:40 +0200
Message-ID	<JdTJ7-6zhv-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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> Just adding a “sleep” is no proper fix anyway, so the question
> is, how to wait in a shell script until the swap device is
> *really* swapoff’d when the syscall returns too early, and
> (someone from the Linux kernel maintainers reading this?) should
> I report the latter as a bug against the kernel?

I'd file a bug report against the `mount` package (the one that
provides `swapoff`).


        Stefan

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wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 02:00 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 02:10 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 02:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-08-21 08:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 13:40 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 14:20 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 16:00 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 23:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-22 14:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 17:50 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-22 19:30 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-22 21:40 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 05:40 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 04:50 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 05:20 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 13:10 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 22:20 +0200

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