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Re: gconf craziness



On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:35, Chipzz wrote:
> Very much so. Processes started before the upgrade of xlibs will still
> have the old .so in memory, and only exiting the app in question will
> remedy tghe situation; pkill -HUP merely causes them to reread their
> config, but not exit; as such they will still be using the old lib.

That depends on the program.  With gconf, bonobo and the rest, in this
situation, they all quit.  I confirm this using ps.

I use HUP as I imagine it's more graceful than a -9 signal :)

John.
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