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On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always |
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> wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages |
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> to update a package that happens to be running at the time. |
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> Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it |
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> manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off? |
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> I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone |
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> else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, "Dumb question." |
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> Tony |
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> -- |
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> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary |
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> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |
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> -- Benjamin Franklin |
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Simple and short answer is that at run-time the binary and libraries |
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are loaded into memory and run from there. When you do the update it |
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replaces the binary and/or libraries on disk, but you won't actually |
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be running those updates until you restart the process. There may be |
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other, more dynamic, cases that I am aware of, but that is the general |
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gist of it. |
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Troy |
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