Hybernation and running applications

[Arnold Weber]

> > It will work for _almost_ all programs. Troubling are programs that rely
> > on stable network connections (like instant messengers) or programs that
> > are getting confused if time jumps ahead a few hours at once while running
> > (but i don't know an example for this category)
> 
> Do you have an example in any category?  An IM program should simply tell
> you it lost the network connection - which it did - but it would be a
> pretty poor network app that couldn't properly handle a lost network
> connection.  The network does get taken down during hibernation (at least
> the standard version - I'm not sure about swsusp).  

Actually that's what i wanted to say. Sorry for being unclear. I didn't mean that
applications will crash or terminate. I just wanted to avoid someone believing
hibernating during a 5GB scp-upload won't make any problems :)





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