Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755361AbZGBXv0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:51:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753262AbZGBXvS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:51:18 -0400 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:48240 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752314AbZGBXvR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:51:17 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Jeff Arnold Subject: Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tabbott@ksplice.com, wdaher@ksplice.com, andersk@ksplice.com, nelhage@ksplice.com, price@ksplice.com, geofft@ksplice.com In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: <20090703084359.08E3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:51:18 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1535 Lines: 46 > Hello, > > The Ksplice team [1] is now providing rebootless kernel updates for Ubuntu > 9.04 Jaunty to anyone who configures their machine to receive them [2]. > In short, users can click a few buttons and start getting all of the > Ubuntu kernel security updates applied to their system without rebooting. > No initial kernel changes are needed. Great. > > [1] http://www.ksplice.com > [2] http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack > > I first mentioned Ksplice to the LKML in April 2008 [3], and since then > we've submitted several rounds of Ksplice patches [4,5,6]. So far we've > gotten various improvements related to Ksplice merged into mainline. > > [3] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/23/330 > [4] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/13/6 > [5] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/21/484 > [6] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/330 > > Ksplice applies traditional source code patches to unmodified Linux > kernels. It can be used to apply all of the Linux security patches over > multiple years [7], and it can also apply reliability patches and other > bug fixes, such as from the Linux stable tree. Afaik, Solaris and some other Unix like OS have similar rebootless security update mechanism. Yes, I like linux has such feature too. > > [7] http://www.ksplice.com/paper > > - Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/