Am 14.10.2010 08:40, schrieb diederick: > On 10/13/2010 11:03 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> On 10/09/2010 12:57 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Guys, just updated and got a slew of warning dumped back to konsole: > >> Nothing strange to me at all: you're upgrading qt while you're in KDE >> (which uses qt). It's never a good idea to upgrade a package while it's >> being used. If you're upgrading a daemon, shut down the daemon first; >> if you're upgrading qt, exit KDE first; if you're upgrading the kernel, >> udev, etc., drop to single user mode first. > > I didn't know that, nor did I read that somewhere on the wiki. Why is > this? Aren't programs copied to memory (i.e. loaded) before being used? > In that case, isn't the upgraded version left alone until it is loaded > the next time the program is started? Where can I find more on this? > > Thanks, > Diederick > > -- > http://www.diederickdevries.net/ > > Hello, in general you are right, but you never know. Programs are doing something. Some may reload data files even or program code at runtime. Regards Stefan
