Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
>>> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
>>> Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it.  kernel,
>>> dbus, etc...
>> Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?
> 
> The system bus cannot be restarted.  Similarly, any apps you have
> running will be using old libraries so things like glibc you really want
> to reboot for.  

Back in the days, sshd had a trigger to restart itself on glibc update.  init
had a similar thing too I guess...

behdad

> Jeremy
>