Messages in this thread | | | Date | 13 Jul 2001 08:50:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting? |
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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.
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