From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 0:24:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB89F37B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076A06C10; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:24:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:24:30 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make world without reboot? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: :Hello all-- : :Is it possible to do a make world (and have it take effect) without :rebooting? I can imagine that unloading the kernel and loading a new one :would be a programming challenge to say the least. Is such a thing possible :with FreeBSD? No. Such a thing is possible -- some Telco grade stuff can do this (Tandem guardian, for one, I think). You really need to have hardware support to do this. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message