Hi!

> > > > The appended patch allows the users of suspend to abort the image 
> > > > saving by
> > > > pressing Ctrl+c.
> > > 
> > > It would be nice to abort with escape or something... ctrl+c is going
> > > to be "interesting" for users using splashscreen.
> > 
> > OK
> 
> Escape (and f2) switches the splash screen to verbose. I sometimes probably
> would want to do that without aborting suspend.
> 
> I'm not sure if the first escape (that switches bootsplash to verbose) is
> even passed on to the terminal, though. Would need to test that...
> 
> > > Otherwise it looks okay.
> 
> Another thing: for me, writing the image actually often consumes much less
> time than "freeing some memory" or creating the snapshot does.
> 
> I understand that aborting during snapshot creation might not be possible,
> but can we also abort during "freeing memory"?

It is doable (not easy), but is it worth it? Abort is there so you
don't have to power your machine back up + boot it (30+
seconds)... Freeing memory is still fraction of that.

(But I'd probably not refuse a patch :-).
                                                                Pavel
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