Hi, On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:22:19 +0100 Bartłomiej Zimoń <uzi18@xxxxx> wrote: > So pm could be very simple, and i think we don't need more. > I want ask You how usualy such user (not root) process notification is done, > You are talking about pm-utils right? No, not at all. Once you are at a level where pm-utils does its job, the Network is hopefully already disconnected and the external storage umounted etc.. So you do not send the message from pm-utils, but from the power manager app. Once you are done with preparing the suspend in the users session (telling your email and IM app to go offline etc), then you call HAL's suspend method (or whoever is in charge of that now, DevKit?). Implementation detail: probably the power manager app just tells the network manager app to shut down the network when going to suspend, and the network manager app tells the email and im app to go offline, this would at least make much more sense to me ;) I see why you are tempted to put this into the kernel. However, this is IMHO not the best way, because you might need to interact with the user like "I could not umount the USB stick, continue suspend?" (with a timeout of 10 seconds and default "ok, don't care about the FS and continue") and that is pretty complicated to do from outside the desktop session. (Note that I am in no way totally up-to-date how this is implemented nowadays and it would be definitely a good idea to talk to the pm-utils and the desktop developers, e.g. the gnome-power-manager guys about those issues). Have fun, Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
