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Blocking suspend blockers

Blocking suspend blockers

Posted May 20, 2010 20:12 UTC (Thu) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
In reply to: Blocking suspend blockers by felipebalbi
Parent article: Blocking suspend blockers

For all practical purposes any app can take a suspend blocker - there's no opportunity for users to tweak the set of permissions an application has, it's fixed by the app developer. However, the UI does warn the user during installation that the app might do this and does provide the accounting that's been discussed.


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