Re: [osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-26 Thread Dave Miner
Lu, Baolu wrote: Hopefully I can get one of those who actually did the work to post a blog entry about it. Anyway, the executables and libraries which need to remain stable during the entire duration of the patching application and would be affected by the patch operation are copied into a tempo

Re: [osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-26 Thread Steven Sim
Dave; Every executable or library already loaded into memory has a backing store attached to them, anonymous or otherwise. Executables in memory have a backing store which naturally points back to the original binary executable (or library) file on disk (file system), referenced in memory by

RE: [osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-25 Thread Lu, Baolu
日 2:26 To: Steven Sim Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme Steven Sim wrote: > Folks; > > Today Sun BIG ADMIN website posted an article by Lynne Thompson entitled > "What's New in Patching " > > See http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-25 Thread Dave Miner
Steven Sim wrote: Folks; Today Sun BIG ADMIN website posted an article by Lynne Thompson entitled "What's New in Patching " See http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/patch-wn.jsp Could somebody here elaborate more on the following statement ".Now, deferred-activation patc

[osol-discuss] Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-25 Thread Steven Sim
Folks; Today Sun BIG ADMIN website posted an article by Lynne Thompson entitled "What's New in Patching " See http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/patch-wn.jsp Could somebody here elaborate more on the following statement ".Now, deferred-activation patching uses the loopb