That's what I thought, but I don't think the security update mentions that.
Shouldn't it be mentioned somewhere?

IIRC some updates also offered to restart affected services
semi-automatically, why was that not the case with this update?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-01-27 23:40, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems no services were restarted after the recent update. Shouldn't
>> this be done to ensure the updated code is picked up?
>
> As glibc is used by virtually all the code running on a machine, it
> means that everything might need to be restarted. Rebooting the machine
> looks the easiest way to do that, even if not really convenient.
>
> --
> Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
> [email protected]                 http://www.aurel32.net



-- 
Olaf


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