11 Apr
2005
11 Apr
'05
22:12
The Sunday 2005-04-10 at 16:26 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
long as it remains in use by at least one process is the fundamental reason why you can do so much software updating on Linux or Unix systems without having to restart the system. In essence both the old and the new versions of a resource can coexist and the old resource will be reclaimed when the last active use of it concludes.
Ah... :-O That's new to me - nice to know :-) It explains a number of things. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson