Re: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > Afaik, Solaris and some other Unix like OS have similar rebootless
> > security update mechanism.
> 
> No system other than Ksplice makes it practical to convert kernel patches 
> into hot updates while writing little to no new code.
> 
> People have manually been making limited changes to running binaries for 
> years, but making it practical to go from kernel patches to hot updates is 
> new.

Yeah, I agree it can dramatically reduce maintainance cost :)


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