Subject: Re: savecore_flags="-z"
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/11/1999 01:08:58
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > If there are enough easily compressible pages it may even take
> > less time :) Seriously - if I'm in a real hurry I hit ^C on
> > savecore now - if I'm not in a hurry I don't mind if it takes
> > twice as long. Its not ideal, but with the above I still think
> > its the better overall.
>
> You type ^C, but what if the user in front of the machine doesn't know
> about it? he will just wonder what's wrong, maybe even press the reset
> button. (I know what I'm talking about...).
Even with the 'counting up' display of savecore? If so that is
almost as much of a problem without the compression.
Maybe the display should be changed to show percentage completed?
David/absolute