Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 16:34:25 EST


Diego Calleja wrote:
Of course there're lots of problems, like what happens
if you change a file which was being used by a suspended process,

That one is easy. Store a checksum of the file in use when you go to sleep If on wakeup the checksum is different, pop up a window that says "the file *foo* has been modified by another application, do you want to reload?".

> what happens if you update a library that a image is supposed to
use

Same as updating it on a running system. Don't do that unless you really know what you're doing.

Chris
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