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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:32:08 -0600
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release
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Diego Calleja wrote:
> Of course there're lots of problems, like what happens
> if you change a file which was being used by a suspended process, 

That one is easy.  Store a checksum of the file in use when you go to 
sleep  If on wakeup the checksum is different, pop up a window that says 
"the file *foo* has been modified by another application, do you want to 
reload?".

 > what happens if you update a library that a image is supposed to
> use

Same as updating it on a running system.  Don't do that unless you 
really know what you're doing.

Chris
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