gnu linux update question

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Jun 28 16:34:53 UTC 2011


On 06/28/2011 05:21 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
>> How could it be otherwise?
> 
> If a file has been deleted, the proper thing would be for the running process 
> to read the new copy into memory.

That's not always possible.  It's certainly not possible if one of
the changed files is an executable or a shared library.

Andrew.


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