Dnia 2009-06-30, o godz. 10:35:13
"Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr(a)redhat.com> napisał(a):
If parts of userspace cannot re-initialise themselves without a
reboot
then they should just be fixed. Even init has been able to do this for
years now - resorting to exotic live-patching methods for updating
userspace is just a workaround for badly written software.
Oh please... In your
opinion, every program in existence should allow a user
to hot-patch it? Like: dump the memory and open descriptors somewhere and
execve() new version of itself?
Yeah, you go ahead - write patches, contribute.
Meanwhile, when a security bug strucks in the least obvious place, like
wnck-applet or something, we will have means to fix it without logout for our
users. That's a win. Really. Even if the method is exotic, which I can't deny.
Lam