From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:08:50 -0700 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: glibc 2.1 -> 2.2 gotchas? Message-ID: <20010829140850.A1211@false.org> References: <998751333.12597.3.camel@yoda> <01082511424509.15847@localhost.localdomain> <20010826005515.Postino-022357@smtp01.highway.ne.jp> <01082513443402.16172@localhost.localdomain> <3B882749.346A0B39@iiic.ethz.ch> <20010825154233.S14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <20010825155417.A8892@nevyn.them.org> <20010825213629.U14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010825213629.U14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:36:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:36:29PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:54:17PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > 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. > > That's sorta what I figured. So on debian certain services get restarted > so that new children are sane, yes? Yes, precisely. Most of the network daemons that use NSS need to be restarted, because of how NSS is loaded. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/