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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by blakeyrat on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:56PM (#11996468)
Your answer doesn't really address the question.

Jameskegel said that in any "mainstream distributions", after you run an update but before you reboot, the OS is running the updated libraries. I honestly don't understand how that is possible.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by fapjacks on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:23PM (#11996721)
It's really quite simple: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/74172/28974
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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by blakeyrat on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:00PM (#11997037)
Right but that very answer says:

> Newly created processes will use the updated contents, running applications will access the old version.

In other words, currently running code is still running the known-buggy version, exactly what I said originally that kicked-off this whole discussion.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by fapjacks on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:56PM (#11999397)
No, what you said was: "until you reboot, your Linux box is still running the known-buggy code"

And then later in the same post (just so we're clear about what you said): "But unless you reboot after installing your Linux updates, your computer still has the bugs."

Linux does not require a reboot to update.

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