On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 03:06:10PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:57:30 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote > > > One of the most inportant advance of Linux over Windows is the > > fact, that there are only a few situations - like kernel updates - > > which requires a reboot of your system. > > Linux has, in principle, the same problem as Windows, that while > you can replace files that are in use running processes will (of course) > not pick up the changes until restarted. Most daemons do so when updated > themselves, but, for example, updating zlib because of an exploit will > not restart all daemons using the exploitable library, so unless the > admin restarts those manually or the system is rebooted you might > still be vulnerable. So this is a problem that needs to be solved, but does it require a reboot? Not really ... it's possible to list all processes using zlib, convert that back into a list of packages, then instruct those packages to restart themselves. Job done, BETTER than Windows / OS X. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
