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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:27:13 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new kldpath(8): display/modify the module search path
Message-ID:  <3B304241.DE787305@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.010615122501.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3B2F958E.BC556A1E@mindspring.com> <15151.41572.721434.703837@nomad.yogotech.com>

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Nate Williams wrote:
> > Having to reboot to make things work really, really sucks --
> > and that is often necessary if you build code from the net,
> > which FreeBSD has mistakenly included as part os the base
> > system monolith.  OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and the resolver library
> > are three examples that leap lithely to mind.
> 
> Terry, it's simple to not have to reboot.  Many ports already
> do this, but a 'ldconfig -R' tells it to re-scan the known
> directories to pickup new entries, which can be done at any
> time (as root of course).

Didn't address this...

This doesn't fix the "replace /lib with /lib.new" problem;
think "mount(2)"...

-- Terry

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