EOF of gnome-sys-suspend [LSARC/2008/669 FastTrack timeout 11/11/2008]

[Jedy Wang]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:58 -0700, Randy Fishel wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, James Carlson wrote:
> 
> >
> > What about /etc/default/sys-suspend and the "Syssuspend*" family of X
> > resources?
> >
> 
>   /etc/default/sys-suspend is part of the CDE consolidation.  
> gnome-sys-suspend was a GNOME equivilent of the Motif sys-suspend 
> tool, so to make them somewhat compatible, gnome-sys-suspend consumed 
> the defaults file.  I don't suspect this case intends to do anything 
> with /etc/default/sys-suspend, and leave it to CDE for disposition.
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Gary Winiger wrote:
> 
> > Brian,
> > 
> > 	I've not followed along for a while, so excuse my ignorance.
> > 	How will this relate to/affect things like the recent work in
> > 	uadmin(1M) to bring the system down properly with relationship
> > 	to the audit subsystem?  I've left this intact and Cc-ed Randy
> > 	because recently he said that he was doing stuff in this area
> > 	relative to lid closure events.  I believe there's also some
> > 	work going on to EOF sys-suspend(1M) (/usr/openwin/bin/sys-syspend).
> > 	Is there any relationship with that project?
> > 
> 
>   gnome-sys-suspend doesn't do the expected auditing.  However, it has 
> very limited usability on x86 platforms (meaning: it is broken), and 
> should either be fixed or removed.  The team choose to remove it 
> (which is OK by me).
> 
>   There is some intention to EOF /usr/openwin/bin/sys-syspend as a 
> continuation of the CDE EOF.  I don't expect this case to care much 
> about that one, though not the other way around.
> 
>   However, the PM teams are working on a proposal for a library and 
> cli's which would provide the committed API's to be used for power 
> management control (and for things like GPM and/or HAL to consume) 
> which would make /usr/openwin/bin/sys-syspend obsolete.  That is not 
> part of this case, but is made for reference.
Hi Randy,

Do you have the case number now? If not, would you please inform me when
you file the case? I will add your case in my one-pager.

Regards,

Jedy
> 
> 
> 	---- Randy