--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:36, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > > >> As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have > > >> something to do with it. > > > > > > If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not > > > overwritten, there shouldn't be any problem, as existing open > > > filehandles won't then see any changes. > > Yes! That did it. > > [...] > > > Well, I've never tried to install the whole XFree86 when it's running, > > but I'm often lazy and just compile the mesa/src/drv/r200 if only small > > changes happen and copy the r200_dri.so manually. But as you suggested, > > if I'll delete the installed r200_dri.so before copying the new one, > > then no crashes happen - the running kde happily keeps its references to > > the old deleted dri driver and new apps will use the new dri driver. > > cp --remove-destination will do that. I'm a bit surprised cp doesn't > always unlink the destination before replacing it though; is there any > reason why this shouldn't be considered a bug? (Seems to me the only > difference should be whether it follows symlinks or not) I can't think > of an example where overwriting the existing file would be useful, but > that may well be just me, any clues appreciated. :) > When you do it this way the inode(number) and it's meta data are lost. cp would have to know about the filesystem and what meta data needs to be saved/restored. As this results in the loss of permitions it is not the default.
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