[Pm-utils] Making cron run after resume?

[Stefan Seyfried]

Victor Lowther wrote:

> How about the following hook-running convention:
> 
> When running hooks in normal sort order, hooks shall run in two phases:
> 
> Phase 1: All hooks that DO NOT begin with two leading digits shall run
> first (in no guaranteed order), and the success or failure of these
> hooks SHALL be ignored by the pm-utils framework.
> 
> Phase 2: All hooks that DO begin with two leading digits shall run
> second (in C-locale lexical sort order), and unexpected failure of these
> hooks SHALL prevent pm-utils from suspending or hibernating the box.

- breaking backwards compatibility
- how do you tell the user why the machine did not suspend?

> This neatly seperates out hooks that are run because an installed
> program wants to do something automatically across a suspend/resume (but
> that do not work around glitches that may cause suspend/resume to fail),
> and hooks that must be run in a specific order to work around glitches
> that may cause suspend to fail.

Could you please give a specific use case?
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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