Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:33:10 +0200
I think you are right on this point, but it is also true for XP! It is
very likely that these users-running-all-together will encounter some
problems, except if the OS programmers are very strict on security and
crashes ;-) These XP users will have good time, IMHO...
Anyway, I agree that's a very interesting features, and that something
better (not the same!) should be implemented in OS X. I'm not an Unix geek,
but from what I understand, may I suggest the following:
- whenever a user logs out, why in the hell does the system quit all
running apps? It could just put them to "sleep" (that is, put all their
memory on swap files), and remove them from the process list. (That's more
or less the scenario when an app gos to virtual memory, except the process
itself is still in the process list.)
- when the same user logs in later, it enough to rebuild the list of
running processes, and to awake some apps (the Finder and the Dock would
be enough, the other ones coming back as usual when swapping).
Virtual PC does that: you can stop your whole environment, it writes all
the memory used on a file on disk when you quit. If you open it later, it
just reads back the files, and voila! you are still in the middle of you
apps (means: games, since it is PC stuff ;-).
obviously that would be a user preference somewhere.
P.S.: What does it means XP? OS X for the Poors ones?
Le jeudi 5 juillet 2001, ` 04:41, Dave Spooner <email@hidden>
a icrit :
While it would be easy to log out without terminating your active
applications, I suspect it would be much more difficult to prevent
subsequent users from interacting with those applications...
Really this seems like a simple routine change in the logout/login >
process. Currently when a user logs out, it forces all applications to
quit (you know what I mean). Wouldn't it simply be a change in just
performing the logout while the apps continue to run? The login
screen > could be somewhat changed to show which users are "active" and
an > "active" user would be any user with running applications. This
seems > like it is a small change with a huge usable potential.
Thomas Lachand-Robert
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