Some do and some don't. The ones that will are those that muck around
with the kernal software (the "main" part of the OS). While technically
it IS possible to upgrade and not restart, doing so would involve on the
fly shutdowns and restarts of so many things that you don't see running
behind the scenes, it is just as well accomplished by a global restart.
This though is a different type of restart than the one being described
(there hasn't that many updates and they haven't been released on a
weekly basis.
But I do think Apple should do a better job at explaining about why
system updates usually need a restart.
Jerry
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 09:23 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Ward Oldham wrote:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> No. ?It?s not normal.
>>
>> However, this could occur if you have set your software update system
>> preference to automatic and it periodically installs some software
>> updates that require a restart.
>
> I was surprised at the number of software updates (from OSX's Software
> Update utility) that required a restart. I sort of wonder if Apple
> forgot that X is not supposed to need this?
>
> Anne
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