Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750975AbVJBFgN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:36:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750977AbVJBFgN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:36:13 -0400 Received: from qproxy.gmail.com ([72.14.204.205]:59347 "EHLO qproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750975AbVJBFgN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:36:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pYJ+tWzYiDXLVC0DM7TzwrH0CQC4sSjTUCwOGXDZpBBwWBAa7Xid9Q5dGi8AetnrflJ6Z7abAnZYfky0oyvFOmi8cXIM2Zcrvr34O41DItMRXgVMK0bSCijyUChX+k+248GozZQF14xAEOm/5bDircenBrjASYRSd0QjUndZ+to= Message-ID: <105c793f0510012236j16033efbh400f6f2a8495d03e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:36:12 -0400 From: Andrew Haninger Reply-To: Andrew Haninger To: lokum spand Subject: Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 18 On 10/1/05, lokum spand wrote: > ... a program like mozilla with many open windows. I give > it a SIGNAL-SAVETODISK and the process memory image is dropped to a > file. I can then turn off the computer and later continue using the > program where I left it, by loading it back into memory. FWIW, you can already do this with Firefox (and Mozilla, I'm sure) using the Sessionsaver plugin. And while I can shed no further light on your idea, I wholeheartedly support it. It would be a nice alternative to swsusp/Suspend2 in that it could possibly avoid hardware issues involved with hibernation. -Andy - 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/