Does KDE do offline software updates?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> If you update libraries a running program uses, it won't get the new
> libraries until it is restarted since it's already got a copy. In
> fact, I think any program that starts and wants that updated library
> will get the old version as it's already in memory.

Are you sure of that? I always assumed that shared libraries are just
files and once a file is replaced the normal rules apply, i.e. anything
that opened it before the replacement gets the old version, anything
that opens it afterwards gets the new one. That's how inconsistencies
can arise.

poc