Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:27:10 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <42655B8E.5020603@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050419120053.6ad17df1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> <200504191317.j3JDH76H001458@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050419120053.6ad17df1.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> wrote: [ ... ] > Fact is, trying to update a running system could result in silent failures. True. It's better to shut down as many tasks as possible. > The system can not replace programs that are in use, This is generally not the case. Unix lets you continue to access a file after it has been deleted, so long as the process hangs on to a file descriptor. This lets you replace programs in use, without running into the same problems that platforms like Windows have. -- -Chuck
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