On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Andy Sy wrote:
>
> > >productivity. I wonder what it would take for the Linux
> > >kernel to have this ability. (KDE desktop save/restore
> > >is quite imperfect).
> > Oh, regarding that last line of yours, just wait and see.
>
> I was hoping for a technical explanation of how hibernate
> functionality might work under Linux, not start a pissing
> contest.
>
linux kernel coders could possibly use the hybernation concept used in XP
without having too much trouble. the techqniques used in XP is fairly
standard (good!): free & flush the memory buffers and sync the disks, dump
the all used/relevant memory pages into a special persistent swap
disk/file/partition, flag the state on a startup file or on the swap file
itself, then shutdown. then they could make a /proc file entry where
command-line progs or X can signal the kernel to the above steps. on
startup, after linux mounts the filesystem but before mounting any swap
partition, it reads the flag and loads the contents of that swap into
memory. tada! (well at least it would be something to that effect i
imagine).
pong
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