Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:43:33 -0500 | From | christophe barbé <> | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors |
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:01:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > christophe.barbe.ml@online.fr (christophe barb?) wrote on 19.01.02 in <20020119145132.GA972@online.fr>: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:18:57AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > Whether that was an intended or accidental feature only someone with > > > more insight into Unix history can answer. It's that feature that lets > > > us do live upgrades of distributions without rebooting (executables and > > > libraries can be replaced without affecting the currently running > > > processes), at the very least much easier than it would be without this > > > behaviour. > > > > I remember that previous debian release come with a patched kernel to > > allow live upgrade. It was explained in the FAQ that the patch was > > required for this purpose. > > Complete and utter bullshit. This was never true, and the FAQ never > claimed this. > > > 7.2 Debian claims to be able to update a running program; > > how is this accomplished? > > ... under which was originally explained how running demons would be > restarted, and later it was also mentioned that replacing in-use files is > possible under Unix. Nothing more. (Google groups will happily find those > versions, they were in use from 1996 to 2001 according to the archive.) > > > What was in this patch? > > The patch only exists in your fantasy.
Ok you are right. I've checked old versions of this FAQ and this patch only exists in my fantasy.
I take your 'Complete and utter bullshit' comment as a debian compliment and not as an insult.
Christophe
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Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément. Nicolas Boileau, L'Art poétique [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |