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Suspend blocker suspense

Suspend blocker suspense

Posted May 27, 2010 8:57 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Suspend blocker suspense by neilbrown
Parent article: Suspend blocker suspense

as far as I can tell this is explicitly disagreeing with your #3 requirement.

They are saying that many apps are badly written and so do things when they don't need to. So as a result, unless the app raises the suspend block, the system may decide to go to sleep, even if the app is busy doing things.


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