Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:19:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Takashi Ikebe <ikebe.takashi@lab.ntt.co.jp>
cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7
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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.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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