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Re: Patching a running kernel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 17 02:53:32 1998

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:46:09 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Kevin A. Pieckiel" wrote:

> Someone tells me there is a way to patch a running kernel and
> upgrade it without shutting down and rebooting.  I've never heard
> of this.  Is this true?  Can I really upgrade from 2.0.35-2 to
> 2.0.36 without rebooting?  For some reason I don't want to belive
> it...

I hear some people are implementing that...

Gee, then linux never needs to reboot except to put in a new init.

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2





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