On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:31:02PM +0000, Dermot McCluskey wrote: > Does IPS include any special handling for when "pkg image-update" > causes a currently executing file to be updated, eg what > happens if X or libc is updated?
Files are never overwritten; they're written to temporary names and moved into place. Now, there may still be issues when multiple file objects need to be changed simultaneously. This isn't possible with the posix filesystem interfaces. So when you're making updates to sensitive bits of the system, doing so on a clone is generally much safer. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
