Re: [gentoo-dev] Lib_users, a post-upgrade helper

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:23:55 +0200
Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o> wrote:

> While that approach has the advantage of not only catching mapped
> files but every open FD, I am thinking about implementing something
> similar with lib_users (but using /proc/<pid>/fd/).

The great advantage would be that it also discovers changed runtime
configuration files. Not that it would also disregard "trivial"
updates, of course, but by pointing out the filenames, an admin having
just run etc-update could easily figure that out.


     jer