On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:12:51PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > I run a -current apmd on a MacBook3,1. > It suspends and resumes just fine. > > There seems to be a slightly unclear detail > in the apmd(8) manpage however: > > /etc/apm/suspend > /etc/apm/standby > /etc/apm/resume > /etc/apm/powerup > /etc/apm/powerdown These files contain the host's customized > actions. > Each file must be an executable binary or shell > script. A single program or script can be used to > control all transitions by examining its argument > list, which is set to one of suspend, standby, > resume, powerup, or powerdown. > > > The wording "argument list, which is set to ..." suggests > that apmd calls the scripts with an argument ($1) of "suspend", > or an argument of "resume" etc; it does not - when apmd suspends, > it simply runs /etc/apm/suspend, but does not give it any "argument > list". (The script can still examine the name by which it was called, > of course.) > > This is examplified by the following: > > # ls -li /etc/apm > total 20 > 8089 -rwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 54 Oct 27 08:43 powerdown > 8089 -rwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 54 Oct 27 08:43 powerup > 8089 -rwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 54 Oct 27 08:43 resume > 8089 -rwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 54 Oct 27 08:43 standby > 8089 -rwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 54 Oct 27 08:43 suspend > > # cat /etc/apm/suspend > #!/bin/sh > > echo `date` $0 called with $@ >> /tmp/log > > [suspend now] > [resume now] > > # cat /tmp/log > Wed Oct 27 15:04:17 CEST 2010 /etc/apm/suspend called with > Wed Oct 27 15:04:28 CEST 2010 /etc/apm/resume called with > >
ok, this is giving me a sore head and i'm fed up of looking at it. i freely admit i do not understand this part of the manpage. so... > I believe the diff below makes the wording more clear. > if some developer wants to agree that jan is correct we can look at a fix. jan, i think your diff is incorrect - isn;t it just repeating what we've already said? if what you say is true, isn;t the best fix just to remove the text "A single program...powerdown."? of course the disclaimer that my head is sore applies... jmc > Jan > > > > --- apmd.8.orig Wed Oct 27 15:09:14 2010 > +++ apmd.8 Wed Oct 27 15:10:21 2010 > @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ > These files contain the host's customized actions. > Each file must be an executable binary or shell script. > A single program or script can be used to control all transitions > -by examining its argument list, > -which is set to one of > +by examining the name by which it was called, > +which is one of > suspend, > standby, > resume,
