Wayland crash scenario

[Josh Leverette]

Sorry, I didn't reply-all

> I personally think this is feasible. On Mac os x there was a utility called Fermata which would actually freeze an application until you gave it the go ahead to continue. The kernels of both Linux and Mac derive from Unix, and so I would assume such core functionality exists here too.

On Dec 13, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar <boulabiar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering whether we can find a better solution to the scenarios
> where Wayland crashes.
> You all know that for the X case, when it crashes, everything open is
> lost, you need to re-login and you need to reopen your apps again.
> Non-saved work will be lost.
> 
> Is it possible to change this for wayland ?
> So when it crashes :
> 1. Opened apps will freeze automatically
> 2. Wayland restarted
> 3. Opened apps will be "reconnected" to the new instance of wayland
> 4. Apps de-freezed and work is safe.
> 
> Any comment on the feasibility of this ?
> Do we need a new watchdog process for waylad only controlling this ?
> Or something can be hooked starting from the kernel level ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> i
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