Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262309AbVBQT55 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:57:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262324AbVBQT55 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:57:57 -0500 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:61962 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262309AbVBQT5s (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:57:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:00:09 +0100 To: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Cc: Lee Revell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) Message-ID: <20050217200009.GA19956@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <524qge20e2.fsf@topspin.com> <1108424720.32293.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <42113F6B.1080602@am.sony.com> <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050217183709.GA11929@ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050217183709.GA11929@ncsu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 22 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:37:09PM -0500, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > This is debatable. Windows does something like this. It really annoys > me that I will get a windows desktop very quickly after logging in > but that I can't do anything with it until some mystrey initialization > takes place. I would hate to be able to log into my linux machine but > not be able to check email for the first 15 seconds. Well, this will depend on your email server (pop? imap? other?) being up. Is it local on your machine, or external? Either way, being able to launch an email client (or some "new mail" notification app) shouldn't be a problem. It will simply not notice new mail until the mail service comes up - but it won't fail. It'll be as if the mail arrived a little later. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/