Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

["Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>]

Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@gt.rr.com> wrote:
>> I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always
>> wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages
>> to update a package that happens to be running at the time.
>>
>> Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it
>> manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off?
>>
>> I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone
>> else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, "Dumb
>> question."
>>
>> Tony
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>>
> 
> Simple and short answer is that at run-time the binary and libraries
> are loaded into memory and run from there.  When you do the update it
> replaces the binary and/or libraries on disk, but you won't actually
> be running those updates until you restart the process.  There may be
> other, more dynamic, cases that I am aware of, but that is the general
> gist of it.
> 
> Troy

I suspected it might be memory. However I still find it difficult.  If
I'm running KDE for example, it requires at least kdelibs which is a lot
to hold in memory.

Tony

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