Patches please. On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 11:10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 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 > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > rogelio e-mail: rogelio@localhost -- Do you VisualMail? Grab a copy of the best WebMailer right now! http://www.mintersoft.com/visualmail _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
