> Ok, I'm tired of having to track all services that might need to be > restarted after a libc6 upgrade. So here's what I am going to do. I want > to require all packages that need this to declare a new reply in it's init > script. It's very simple, I check your init script like this:
Is it posible to detect if the service needs a restart by examining the executable file? E.g.: objdump -T $( readlink -f /proc/$PID/exe ) | egrep 'symbol1|symbol2' The processes to restart could be taken from ps AND /etc/init.d/*.