On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:36, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > >> As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have > >> something to do with it. > > > > If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not > > overwritten, there shouldn't be any problem, as existing open > > filehandles won't then see any changes. > Yes! That did it.
[...] > Well, I've never tried to install the whole XFree86 when it's running, > but I'm often lazy and just compile the mesa/src/drv/r200 if only small > changes happen and copy the r200_dri.so manually. But as you suggested, > if I'll delete the installed r200_dri.so before copying the new one, > then no crashes happen - the running kde happily keeps its references to > the old deleted dri driver and new apps will use the new dri driver. cp --remove-destination will do that. I'm a bit surprised cp doesn't always unlink the destination before replacing it though; is there any reason why this shouldn't be considered a bug? (Seems to me the only difference should be whether it follows symlinks or not) I can't think of an example where overwriting the existing file would be useful, but that may well be just me, any clues appreciated. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
