Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753653AbZGFJ2a (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:28:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754444AbZGFJ2Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:28:16 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:39418 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753935AbZGFJ2P (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:28:15 -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: <20090703084359.08E3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20090706182806.0C57.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: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:28:16 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 20 > 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. Yeah, I agree it can dramatically reduce maintainance cost :) -- 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/