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  From: Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
  To  : Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:30:19 +0200

Re: apm proposed changes

Hi!

> >   * ability for user-level code to *reject* a pending standby or
> >     suspend event.  Very handy if something nasty is going on.
> 
> Sounds interesting, although I don't know what kind of rules you'd use to
> decide this.  As far as I know (and I'll be happy if you correct me) the
> only reasons you might want to avoid suspending are that the buffer cache
> hasn't been flushed, or you haven't finished cleaning up yet... and

There are user-defined reasons not to suspend. Normally, I want my
notebook to suspend when closed, but NOT if I've just ran long
compilation. In such case I want to do > /etc/nosuspend and just close
the notebook so that it does not eat space on my desk.

> > including both apmd and apm (based on Faith's 2.4 version).  It seems
> > we may have diverged here.  Hmmm.
> 
> Looks that way.  I took Rik's pre-3.0 version, fixed some bugs, made it work
> with hwclock<->clock CMOS clock setting programs (with GMT support), and
> added a patch by Pavel Machek to make it work better with IBM Thinkpads.  I
> don't understand the issues in his patch, but it didn't hurt on my laptop so
> I let it pass.

:-) There were some problems with need to poll (which you corrected
independently) and thinkpad used rather strange combinations of flags
(which made apm unhappy). And I cleaned up a code a little bit.


								Pavel
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