Actually, looking at what files were updated, that should probably be
lsof -n | grep -e libc-

(Probably not a lot of difference in the programs listed, but...)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Lauro" <[email protected]>
> To: "Steven Haigh" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:13:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Library security updates
> 
> > 
> > > If it doesn't protect us is there practicable way to make sure we
> > > are
> > > genuinely protected short of rebooting the whole system every
> > > time
> > > there
> > > is a security update?
> > 
> > Depending on what the update is. If you want to be 100% certain,
> > reboot.
> > If you don't want to reboot, you can hunt through what programs use
> > certain libraries using ld - however the effort taken to do this is
> > much
> > more than a reboot - and probably takes longer.
> > 
> 
> 
> It actually isn't that hard to track down.
> [root@colo-a2vm t2]# lsof -n | grep gcc
> hpiod      2649         root  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718941 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1;545bc2ea
> mysqld     2851        mysql  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718941 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1;545bc2ea
> libvirtd   3121         root  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718941 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1;545bc2ea
> yum-updat  3343         root  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718941 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1;545bc2ea
> smartd     3469         root  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718941 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1;545bc2ea
> automount  6482         root  DEL       REG              252,0
>              4718600
> /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1.#prelink#.dvRyeN
> httpd     11089         root  mem       REG              252,0
>     58400    4718834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
> php       11639          ioi  mem       REG              252,0
>     58400    4718834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
> php       24239          ioi  mem       REG              252,0
>     58400    4718834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
> httpd     27057       daemon  mem       REG              252,0
>     58400    4718834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
> httpd     27058       daemon  mem       REG              252,0
>     58400    4718834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
> 
> 
> You can tell the processes that were not restarted as they show DEL
> instead of mem...
> 

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