Posted Aug 19, 2010 18:36 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Whack-a-droid by alonz
Parent article: Whack-a-droid
"It would be nice to be able to identify power-oblivious applications that never were depended on by PM-driving applications."
Would it be enough to identify it as a bad app, for example when it tried to update the display although screen was blanked? This could be done in the user-space graphics stack...
Posted Aug 25, 2010 21:18 UTC (Wed) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624)
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It could be thought of as an independent application. In other words, sending it a SIGSTOP would have no effect on any other application or on the system infrastructure.