Hybernation and running applications
Arnold Weber
aaqqlloo at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 1 14:16:39 UTC 2008
> > 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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