Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:20:42 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:25609 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:20:38 -0400 Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:50:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <84ocY8IHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <3B4D7685.9AC1DED@idb.hist.no> Subject: Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting? X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To:

<84jaVrwXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <3B4D7685.9AC1DED@idb.hist.no> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org helgehaf@idb.hist.no (Helge Hafting) wrote on 12.07.01 in <3B4D7685.9AC1DED@idb.hist.no>: > Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > What I'd *really* like (but don't see how to get there) would be a "save > > system state, shutdown, change kernel and/or hardware, reboot, restore > > state" system (where state is like "I'm logged in on this console, in this > > current directory, and under X I have Netscape running and this page > > displayed" but I don't care about the exact state of Squid or even if my > > ISDN line is dialled in, because those "fix themselves"). > > Consider os/2 then. All workplace-shell aware programs is supposed to > save > state in this way. The keyword is "supposed". Because I remember from my OS/2 days that most didn't. OTOH, Borland's DOS IDE does. It's a mixed bag. > And yes - they do start up in the same state after > reboot if you want to. Editors come up on the page you left, filesystem > folders comes up, and so on. Most programs from IBM got it right, most others didn't, as far as I can recall. > > and then every user-visible non-transient program > > needs to implement it - and I don't see *that* happen in the next ten > > years. > > Consider a patch for konqueror or a few other webpage/fs-view programs > and you'll go a long way - all in userspace. Well, Netscape *can* sort of do it (for one window). But how do I make it happen for bash? login? xdm? Amd so on ... anyway, I simply don't have the time for such a project. I'm spread too thin as it is. MfG Kai - 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/