On 11/11/2007, [LoN]Kamikaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a binary/library that is currently used gets removed/replaced, it will be > copied to memory. The process will not even recognize this. Only restarting > the process will remove the old version from memory and cause the new one to > be used. I thought every OS did it like that, so I'm surprised that there are > systems causing problems in this case.
Wha, when did that happen? I was always under the impression that binaries/libraries were demand paged in and referenced as a VM object via VFS; you could unlink/rename the file and the currently open reference would still be valid. (Admittedly I looked at this last in 4.x VFS.) Doing a rename-replace-unlink shouldn't clobber existing binaries that are using the library. Doing an -overwrite- of the existing file will cause exciting results. man install. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
