>>>>> " " == Matthew Vanecek <linuxguy@directlink.net> writes:
>> On 4 May 2000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>
>> >Not good. If I'm running /bin/bash, and somebody on the server
>> >updates /bin/bash, then I don't want to reboot my
>> >machine. With the above
>>
> You wouldn't have to reboot. Why would you think you need to
> reboot? This isn't Winbloze, for god's sake. All it means is
> that new bash processes will use the updated version, while old
> processes would still be using the old version--it's loaded in
NO. This behaviour is exactly what Andreas patch would break. New
processes would get a mixture of old and new versions because the page
cache itself would be out of sync.
> memory, remember? Hell, you can even overwrite the libc on a
> running system.
That is only true of files on local storage. We are discussing NFS,
which is a stateless file system.
Cheers,
Trond
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