Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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.
I didn't know that binaries and libraries keep a reference to the file they were created from. Anyway, to the user the whole thing is transparent. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
