Troy Curtis Jr wrote: > On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always >> wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages >> to update a package that happens to be running at the time. >> >> Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it >> manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off? >> >> I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone >> else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, "Dumb >> question." >> >> Tony >> -- >> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary >> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >> -- Benjamin Franklin >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > Simple and short answer is that at run-time the binary and libraries > are loaded into memory and run from there. When you do the update it > replaces the binary and/or libraries on disk, but you won't actually > be running those updates until you restart the process. There may be > other, more dynamic, cases that I am aware of, but that is the general > gist of it. > > Troy
I suspected it might be memory. However I still find it difficult. If I'm running KDE for example, it requires at least kdelibs which is a lot to hold in memory. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
