On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, walt <[email protected]> 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
