Needs-restarting is useless

[Joe Zeff]

I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report 
that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. 
Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) 
and a new kernel.

> [joe at khorlia Desktop]$ su -c needs-restarting
> Password:
> [joe at khorlia Desktop]$ needs-restarting
> [joe at khorlia Desktop]$

If it's actually supposed to do something, it's b0rk.