On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:29:51PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:29:37AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > [on-the-fly kernel upgrades] > > > Not as far as I know. It's rather difficult in a monolithic kernel (QNX > > > is a microkernel). > > > > For some reason, I'm thinking HP-UX can do this... or am I totally off > > my rocker? > > The HP-UX systems on which I've upgraded kernels all required reboots. > They can tweak certain parameters without (as far as I can tell) > recompiling the whole kernel, though, which may be what you're > remembering. This functionality in HP-UX is essentially the same as changing stuff in /proc on a linux system. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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