From: Andrew Haninger <ahaning@gmail.com>
To: lokum spand <lokumsspand@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:36:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <105c793f0510012236j16033efbh400f6f2a8495d03e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F35A25DA28443029610815DA48E0@phx.gbl>
On 10/1/05, lokum spand <lokumsspand@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ... a program like mozilla with many open windows. I give
> it a SIGNAL-SAVETODISK and the process memory image is dropped to a
> file. I can then turn off the computer and later continue using the
> program where I left it, by loading it back into memory.
FWIW, you can already do this with Firefox (and Mozilla, I'm sure)
using the Sessionsaver plugin.
And while I can shed no further light on your idea, I wholeheartedly
support it. It would be a nice alternative to swsusp/Suspend2 in that
it could possibly avoid hardware issues involved with hibernation.
-Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-02 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-01 21:30 lokum spand
2005-10-01 21:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-01 22:21 ` Michael Concannon
2005-10-01 22:51 ` lokum spand
2005-10-01 23:09 ` Michael Concannon
2005-10-02 8:30 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-10-02 13:31 ` Benoit Boissinot
2005-10-02 18:49 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-02 19:21 ` Lexington Luthor
2005-10-02 0:34 ` grundig
2005-10-02 4:53 ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-02 12:57 ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-10-02 14:16 ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-10 1:13 ` serue
2005-11-06 15:42 ` Bernard Blackham
2005-11-09 2:15 ` Peter Chubb
2005-10-02 5:36 ` Andrew Haninger [this message]
2005-10-03 17:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-10-03 18:52 ` Andrew Haninger
2005-10-03 18:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-10-03 19:48 ` Andrew Haninger
2005-10-02 18:46 ` Jon Masters
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2005-10-02 3:19 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] ` <4T47e-5E-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4TbLq-2VG-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4TcR9-4sS-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-02 17:08 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-10-02 17:51 ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-02 19:13 ` Jeff Dike
2005-10-03 20:02 ` Pavel Machek
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