Dynamic software updating in C

Re:Dynamic software updating in C by mwhicks1 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:06PM (#9813899)

If such states are preserved while the process that used them is still running then there is nothing to do: They will still be available to the updated program.

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Re:Dynamic software updating in C by billconan on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:01PM (#9815123)

I was thinking about memory mapped resources, like memory mapped io. and resource references.

maybe you are right, there might be no problem. I need to read the paper to understand better.

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Re:Dynamic software updating in C by mwhicks1 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:36AM (#9818721)

Yes, memory mappings should be preserved, so I can't immediately think why it wouldn't work.

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