Every wednesday should be a HUG DAY!

[Karl Goetz]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:38:26 +0800
> Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
>> I completed another
>> kernel upgrade that required ANOTHER reboot. I have a feeling of deja vu
>> (M$). 
> 
> It isn't compulsory you know :)
> 
> For example:
>>From http://ubuntu.com/usn
> 
> "A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling
>   of the /proc file system. A local attacker could exploit this to
>   execute arbitrary code with full root privileges."
> 
> So - do you have potential "local attackers" ? If not, I guess you don't
> need the new kernel. If you do, then you can install it and be able to
> sleep at night... or at least have a better chance of avoiding insomnia ;-)
> 
> The wizards haven't yet worked out how to update the kernel in a system
> while an existing kernel is running ( joking). 
> 
> Peter
> 
I think you can change kernels without rebooting - iirc someone got it 
working with pivot_root and other nasty hacking :)
but it still resets your uptime, invalidating most peoples reason to do 
this ;)
kk

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Karl Goetz
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