[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: Re: Binary changed since start

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Dec 12 13:05:10 UTC 2019



Am 12.12.19 um 07:53 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
>> Your package manager does that all the time. It's possible and common
>> case.
> 
> Seems you are all MS-Windows guys: If the package manager would overwrite
> existing files, there'd be no reason to restart any process. What the package
> manager does is to unlink the name from the inode and then recreate a new inode
> assigning the same name. If you don't understand this difference, you don't
> understand how UNIX works. I'm kind of shocked to read such nonsense in this
> list.

you wrote nosense with "Did you ever try to overwrite a dynmically
loaded file? I doubt it is possible for obvious reasons" sounding like a
MS-Windows guy


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