On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:46 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:38:34 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > [....] > > Then you should know to run needs-restarting when it has finished to > > check for this yourself. > > Maybe the OP knows, but in thirteen years of running linux > (almost all RedHat or clones) I've never heard of it. And googling found > me nothing comprehensible. Can you point me to something?
It's a secret :-) Seriously, I noticed it maybe a year or so ago and have mentioned it several times on this and other lists, but it's still not well-known. It certainly didn't exist 13 years ago. The earliest reference I can see in a quick Google is early 2010 (F12). There was once a thread here (I know I was on it, and I think Alan Cox too) which discussed how to detect when processes needed to be restarted. Certainly no-one knew about n-r at that time and it wasn't so very long ago. I even started hacking something together at the time. Possibly that gave someone the idea to write n-r, but it's hard to tell. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
