On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
>
> I know a while back there was talk of a method of upgrading your
> kernel for things like security holes, new features, etc using a
> binary method similar to the way we use insmod to load kernel modules.
>
> Does anyone know what happened to all the plans that were made? It
> sure would be nice not to have to reboot to upgrade my kernels.
>
You know, I don't know a whole lot about the internals of an operating
system... but I do believe that you have to be crazy to think that you can
change the *core* of an OS and not reboot it... Think about it. You can't
do that with a user-level program, the exact reason escapes my mind now,
but it has to do with how the memory is mapped during execution.
The OS is nothing but a user level program from the CPU's view instead of
the user's view. (That's not exactly what I mean to say, but I think I
convey my idea... that's the best way I can think of to describe it at the
moment.) You have to restart that program if you want to change it.
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