Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Dec 2005 11:29 UTC
Microsoft is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine. "If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot." And here & here are some more shots of Vista build 5259.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Yes, but do you know what the behaviour of programs using said shared library will do when it's changed out?
On a *nix system the old version is kept in memory until the last program using it closes, and new instances will load the new version.
Being able to do something, and it having defined behaviour are two different things.
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SYSTEM can do all of this. It works quite similarly to UNIX -- ie. the whole unlinking while the file is opened.