On 2014-09-12 14:03, Guido Günther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: [..snip..]The problem with restarting applications and subsystems is that you never know if the loose state information if you just restart them (e.g. Inkscape going down on upgrade would be pretty annoying). Also,Why should it go down? It's mapped into memory already. There can be problems with plugins but it would make more sense to think aboutthese details than resorting to rebooting (twice!). Btrfs could show a wayforward here.
With plugins and, say, dbus services. Btrfs could also show a way just like Nexenta did with updates and rollbacks to a known good state from grub using snapshots. Oh well.
Restarting the whole system is a pretty pragmatic solution for the problem, you have to restart to use a new kernel as well anyway.There KSplice among others.
[citation needed]Yes, there is. And kgraft and kpatch. But does anyone happen to know someone actively publishing patches for them?
Kind regards Philipp Kern