Paul G. Allen wrote:
DJA wrote:
A suspend should NEVER result in a failure upon restart.
Should, but does. Often.
Suspend is supposed to stop all running processes...
[should snip]
It depends upon the system and discussion. I've seen suspend, hibernate
and sleep to name three (all in reference to laptops and desktops).
My point was that there are two power management sleep modes which word
differently and which must deal with slightly different problems.
Although different terms are used, one *should* always use them properly. :P
In
any case, even given the case where memory contents are not written to
disk, the system should...
[have to snip]
I don't care how fsck'd up ACPI is or anything else. I still assert that
a suspend/hibernate/sleep should...
[gotta snip]
If the hardware is too fsck'd up to do it properly, then it should not
be implemented at all. If the developer can't make the supporting
software work properly, then the software should not...
[must snip]
Sure, there are lots of thing that *should* be. Nevertheless, in the
real world one has to deal with the way things *are* , as screaming
about how they *should* work doesn't often produce practical results.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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