> > > 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/*. > > The checks required to do it this way would probably change between glibc > releases. It would be much nicer to have a method that would work forever.
/etc/init.d/* files are seen a lot by users, I don't like the idea of adding weird things to their interface. I prefer having some kind of "concentrated weirdness" that can be transparent to users.
