gharris999 wrote: 
> The original rationale for the 'grace period' after resume was to fix a
> specific problem with Windows XP.  Many users (myself included) would
> see their systems go back into suspend 2 minutes after a WOL no mater
> what system power management settings they had configured.  This problem
> was much discussed on forums at Microsoft and was difficult to debug
> because not every system exhibited this behavior.  There was a small
> chorus of complaints by windows XP SBS users that the stock
> PreventStandby plugin failed to prevent standby in this situation.  So I
> added the 'grace period' as a work-around in the stock PreventStandby
> plugin and ReallyPreventStandby inherited that code.

Yes, I noticed that when I looked up the original discussion on
Bugzilla

gharris999 wrote: 
> 
> Probably the proper thing to do is to test for the OS on resume and
> reset the counter to 0 only when the OS is windows.

Well no. OSX Mountain Lion goes back to sleep too - intentionally,
reliably, and I think correctly. That is why this whole discussion was
raised again in the first place.


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