On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:42:33 -0500
"Troy Curtis Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu
need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon.


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