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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:02:59 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting?
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Kip Macy wrote:

> In the future when Linux is more heavily used at the enterprise level
> there will likely be upgrade/revert modules to allow such a transition
> to take place.

Only if somebody takes the trouble to write them, which
isn't something I see happening in the near future.

Not only would this feature be a LOT of work, it would
(probably) also be very invasive all over the kernel.
OTOH, if the kernel was compiled with -g maybe it'd have
enough info to locate its data structures ?

regards,

Rik
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