Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:31:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jeff Arnold <> | Subject | Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty |
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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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