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Blocking suspend blockers

Blocking suspend blockers

Posted May 20, 2010 7:49 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (subscriber, #36192)
In reply to: Blocking suspend blockers by dlang
Parent article: Blocking suspend blockers

No, you missed a part of it. The article explained that the Android system aggressively suspends whenever it can(for example it could suspend even when a userspace app is doing some work) and thus it needs suspend blockers to force the system to not suspend. Thus suspend blockers are what makes possible the aggressive suspend capability of the Android system. Even a buggy app won't stop the system from suspending if, at the time, the suspend blocker won't block the suspend.


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Blocking suspend blockers

Posted May 20, 2010 7:52 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (subscriber, #36192) [Link]

Clear example of a comment I'd like to cancel.

Blocking suspend blockers

Posted May 20, 2010 17:56 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

which part of the post did you wish to cancel?

Blocking suspend blockers

Posted May 20, 2010 18:34 UTC (Thu) by felipebalbi (subscriber, #56613) [Link]

If you have an application that holds a suspend blocker forever, device will never "aggressively suspend" whatever that means.

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