Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

Rik van Riel
2005-04-20T11:20:17Z

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Takashi Ikebe wrote:

> Well, as many said Live patching is very historical & authoritative
> function on especially carrier, telecom vendor.
> If linux want to be adopted on mission critical world, this function is
> esseintial.

Yes, if you want to use Linux in those scenarios you will
need to change the telco programs to use shared memory and
file descriptor passing, instead of live patching.

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