[Ti] How deep sleep?

[David Remahl]

> It is probably too late, anyway.
> I don't have experience with File Maker, but I think whatever process 
> will stop once the computer is sleeping (it happened to me to put the 
> computer to sleep by mistake in the middle of some perl scripts... and 
> having to restart them). And I don't think it will restart 
> automatically (unless some special command exists (?)).
> Silvo

That is not generally true. When the computer sleeps, all running 
processes should be paused until the computer wakes up again, and then 
automatically resumed. Most processes won't have a problem with this, 
but there may be some that will be confused by the situation. From the 
top of my head, these are a few examples:

- Timing dependent applications, that don't take the sleep effect may 
be confused when all of a sudden a few hours passed.
- Network connections will break.
- Programs dependent on certain external hardware. DigiTools ProTools 
is one example of this. It relies on external sound systems and is not 
equipped to handle sleep.

Since the system sends interested processes a sleep notification before 
going down, it is possible for these applications to take the necessary 
precautions, for example to temporarily close and then reopen network 
connections, or to take the sleep time into account.

In conclusion, most programs will not have a problem waking up after 
sleep, but in extraordinary situations it can cause problems.

/ Rgds, David