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ravalox
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject: reemerging an application while you are running it |
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This is more of my idle(and possibly sick) curiousity peeking out of it's hole in the earth, but is there a big reason why I couldn't, say reemerge xorg while I'm running it? Would it just not be able to overwrite certain files because tehy are in use and exit, or would it work?
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koenderoo
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 Maybe because emerge will try to overwrite existing files |
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RiBBiT
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You can reemerge any application while running it. The files that are in use are loaded into RAM so deleting them from disk will do nothing to that instance of the application.
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braindigitalis
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| RiBBiT wrote: | | You can reemerge any application while running it. The files that are in use are loaded into RAM so deleting them from disk will do nothing to that instance of the application. |
Be careful when rebuilding libraries. Shared libraries are loaded into memory as memory mapped files, which means theyre accessed faster (the disk file is essentially mapped in as part of the swap). This does however mean that if you overwrite the library without deleting it first with rm, it will crash horribly with a segfault. /bin/install will rm the file first properly, some utilities may not.
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