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/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jul 15 2001 - 21:00:18 EST