Re: reboot

For libraries, you can restart any processes that have loaded the old
libraries into memory. Generally you can use lsof to identify these
processes.

Rebooting will of course force all services to restart, thus making
the updates "take effect". That's probably why he said that.

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Depends on the update. Mainly kernel changes.
>
> On Feb 8, 2015 6:51 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I got some guy saying you need to reboot Linux for updates to take effect.
>> I tell him no then he changes his stance, you need to reboot for kernel and
>> system library updates. I agree with the kernel upgrade but what about
>> system libraries????
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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