[Suspend2-announce] Bug discovered in 2.2.10.

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Author: Nigel Cunningham
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To: Suspend2-Announce
Subject: [Suspend2-announce] Bug discovered in 2.2.10.
Hi all.

I've just discovered a bug in 2.2.10. Changes to the error handling code
that runs right after doing the atomic copy while suspending were wrong.
The end result is that if you press escape during the atomic copy, the
pages that should be reread aren't reread. This will result in a crash,
and possibly some on-disk filesystem corruption.

For the moment, please be careful not to press escape during the atomic
copy. The fix is not large or complicated, so I hope I will be able to
do a release in pretty short order. I do have a couple of meetings in
the next few hours, so it will probably be around 6 hours from the time
of writing before you see a new patch.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Nigel