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Re: hot patching

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Subject: Re: hot patching
From: Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:01:55 -0800
In-reply-to: <20010326164345.A3159@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from rsubr@xxxxxxxxxxxx on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:43:45PM +1000
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:43:45PM +1000, Raja Subramanian wrote:
> Due to its modular design, hotpatching is easier with micro-kernel
> implementations like the Hurd. Even then, there may be seveal bugs which
> cannot be hotpatched.

Thank god, Linus doesn't read this list :)

I don't see why monolithics can't be just as modular. It's one address
space vs many address spaces issue. Not modular vs non-modular as the
80s OS papers claimed.

	-Arun

References:
- hot patching
  - From: Pratap Chakravarthy
- Re: hot patching
  - From: Raja Subramanian

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