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author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-08-30 19:40:54 +0200 |
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committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-08-30 19:40:54 +0200 |
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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 69ac1e3..e0d2e61 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -113,16 +113,16 @@ require any privileges. All @command{mds}'s servers, that is all running parts of @command{mds} except the kernel, are designed so that they -can re-exec themself so that they can be updated online +can re-execute themself so that they can be updated online without any side effects. Servers serialises their state, saves it to RAM (in a directory created by the kernel), -re-exec themself and loads their serialised state. The +re-execute themself and loads their serialised state. The kernel cannot do this because when it has spawned the -master server it has no reason to re-exec, its only mission +master server it has no reason to re-execute, its only mission is to respawn the master server it if would happen to crash. It would technically be possible to enable the kernel to -re-exec but it is not worth it as it as no reason to -re-exec, and doing so puts the display server at risk +re-execute but it is not worth it as it as no reason to +re-execute, and doing so puts the display server at risk of crashing. |