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Troy Curtis Jr wrote: |
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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 |
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>> 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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>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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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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I suspected it might be memory. However I still find it difficult. If |
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I'm running KDE for example, it requires at least kdelibs which is a lot |
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to hold in memory. |
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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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