Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757259AbZGESbR (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754522AbZGESbC (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:31:02 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f193.google.com ([209.85.221.193]:32962 "EHLO mail-qy0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753494AbZGESbB (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:31:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:31:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Arnold X-X-Sender: jbarnold@vinegar-pot.mit.edu To: KOSAKI Motohiro cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tabbott@ksplice.com, wdaher@ksplice.com, andersk@ksplice.com, nelhage@ksplice.com, price@ksplice.com, geofft@ksplice.com Subject: Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty In-Reply-To: <20090703084359.08E3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20090703084359.08E3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 18 On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Afaik, Solaris and some other Unix like OS have similar rebootless > security update mechanism. No system other than Ksplice makes it practical to convert kernel patches into hot updates while writing little to no new code. People have manually been making limited changes to running binaries for years, but making it practical to go from kernel patches to hot updates is new. - 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/