SWAP(2,L)                   AIX Technical Reference                   SWAP(2,L)



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swap



PURPOSE

Provides interface to kernel swap space.

DESCRIPTION

The swap driver provides access to all configured swap partitions.

The swap driver uses the extended argument of the readx system call to select a
partition, since more than one may be configured.

FILES

/dev/swap

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "read, readv, readx" and "swapctl."
































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