On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:25:06AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > The call switching folks have been doing live patching at least > > since I worked on it, over 25 years ago. This is not just > > marketing. > > That still doesn't explain *why* live patching is needed.
The more optimization a modern compiler does the less practical a patching approach seems for anything but very trivial fixes. I'd try a shared library based approach for on the fly updates. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/