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Re: glibc 2.3.1-1 needs restarting network services



Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> What we really need is a general mechanism for either restarting or
> warning about *any* program that has a problematic library open. (Cf.
> the problems people had when a recent libssl security upgrade required
> a restart of e.g., apache-ssl -- or a locally compiled copy of
> apache-ssl. It doesn't make sense for a library maintainer to keep a
> list of problematic programs, because such a list will never be
> comprehensive.

IMHO it would be better if we fixed the nss crap so that restarting
things isn't necessary in the first place.
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