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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Update question
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-07-05 21:56:21
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On Friday 05 July 2002 23:11, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> This is not specific to KDE.
>
> As your underlying system is Linux or something other *nix-like, as far as
> I know, it buffers the files of the running processes. (It is called
> mapping.) So you can remove the files without problems for the running
> processes.
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!

Well, I don't know exactly how it works, but at least if you simply copy the 
new libs over the old libs the apps will instantly crash, if you use install 
instead of cp they won't crash.

Bye
Alex

> On Friday 05 July 2002 22:48, Rene Gass wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > While updating to KDE 3.0.2, the following question came to my mind:
> >
> > The update replaces in-use files, like those from kdelibs or arts. Under
> > Windows, new files of an update are saved with a temporary name and
> > replaced during the next boot, when they are not in use.
> >
> > As the KDE update doesn't require a restart, how do things work here?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rene Gass
> >
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