-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:16:42 -0800 Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardv...@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> wrote: > Most libraries aren't so central to everything that runs in Linux, and > restarting the programs that use the library in question is a > perfectly fine way to ensure you get the new library loaded. But libc > is so very central to absolutely *everything* (or nearly so) in Linux > that the best way to ensure everything gets the new, patched versions > is simply to reboot. > It is true, but still reboot should not be so essential for glibc upgrade. You can just restart (not reload, SIGHUP will not help) services on your server and they will load new glibc. This will allow yout to delay server reboot until next kernel upgrade.
IOW server reboot is easier but is not necessary. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWzAdnAAoJEG7QE8vSCezkgTkIAL/B0wBlY/TEvinnIPjj3SLO loZLceYMnxEscnPTmEGCFY/9w2T+0XCW/sFSOrGd9ji9V5Fubuo06wzqUStsuLwq HaMuaCLFo4cSI1nHyx99Uu5WG0/Oy2HAVHOsoSSyKT+2XkCKxii4KKtSCXxIUbHk gUujxXTNhknh8hIXS66mgVIYB26r1rLDcHTO7/LGPcooJjrnP+RbDobEk5e/yqEI NMQjVDienm/+xWmIBfQBJp98Fi0+I79u4duSs06lRD95mKyxB8oUqw9eD6VOHHwB 0MQQbRO67mqFrCTi1T1WhSjjj4xsvLfjQSf31PfZm/PCEL6aJ3LFoTP6VkPjMjY= =6tI4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
