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SubjectRe: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Afaik, Solaris and some other Unix like OS have similar rebootless
> security update mechanism.

No system other than Ksplice makes it practical to convert kernel patches
into hot updates while writing little to no new code.

People have manually been making limited changes to running binaries for
years, but making it practical to go from kernel patches to hot updates is
new.

- Jeff


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