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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: glibc 2.1 -> 2.2 gotchas?
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:54:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010825155417.A8892@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010825154233.S14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0700


On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:31:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
>
> > > What I recommend won't hurt and can certainly help flush older shared
> > > libraries out of memory.
> >
> > The point is probably that in the Debian packages, the maintainer scripts take
> > care of the necessary steps, so the user doesn't have to.
>
> This always got me tho...  If a program is already running, how do you
> make it stop using the old libraries?  If 'restarting' /sbin/init makes it
> reload, I'll take your word at it.  But what about all of the other apps that
> happen to be running?  The bash session I happen to be doing this upgrade
> from.  Or X (yes, in an ideal world, you goto single user to do this
> anyhow.. :))

They keep running with the old libc.  No big deal, really :)  The RAM
will basically not be reclaimed until after you reboot.

--
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-25 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-25 14:55 glibc 2.1 -> 2.2 gotchas? Keith Clayton
2001-08-25 15:31 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-08-25 15:35   ` Michel Dänzer
2001-08-25 15:42     ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-08-25 15:55       ` Kaoru Fukui
2001-08-25 17:44         ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-08-25 18:06           ` Kaoru Fukui
2001-08-25 22:31           ` Michel Dänzer
2001-08-25 22:42             ` Tom Rini
2001-08-25 22:54               ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2001-08-26  4:36                 ` Tom Rini
2001-08-29 21:08                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-26 14:52   ` Keith Clayton

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