[Pm-utils] Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Fri May 5 06:56:24 PDT 2006


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Personally I think wake is too generic, a user could quite easily say
> "when I woke up from suspend" when you can't say "when I thawed from
> suspend"...

At the same time, "thaw" does not translate well to many other languages 
that I'm familiar with. In several, "thaw" literally means "melt the 
meat." But that's probably okay.

--Pat


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