To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to restart userland?
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From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:47:26 +0000
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Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> writes:

> > > Is there a reason you want to "completely" restart userland and
> > > *not* reboot (for instance, wanting to keep existing mounts,
> > > etc)?
> > Extensive userland upgrades (glibc is a nice example I guess),
> > etc.
>
> Consider using debian then - a glibc upgrade there is no problem as
> various services (including init) are restarted automatically mostly
> without disturbing running applications.

this should be mandatory in the packaging system.
mandrake too restart servers on glibc update.

this is definitively not a kernel problem, but a userland one.

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