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As a force of habit I normally close applications if I am updating that application. But other times when I have forgotten to close them the update still works fine. Is it even necessary to close them? Does it really matter?
Last edited by dodo3773 (2011-05-30 06:25:13)
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No it's not necessary but the changes will not take effect until you do restart the app.
If you tried to do something similar in Windows you would get an error. I don't know why or how Linux does things differently but it is certainly friendlier.
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Keep in mind thought that anything could happen in this scenario. Say if a configuration file changed dramatically and you're still running the old version of the program.
Last edited by sand_man (2011-05-30 05:37:56)
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No it's not necessary but the changes will not take effect until you do restart the app.
If you tried to do something similar in Windows you would get an error. I don't know why or how Linux does things differently but it is certainly friendlier.[edit]
Keep in mind thought that anything could happen in this scenario. Say if a configuration file changed dramatically and you're still running the old version of the program.
This is interesting to me. I remember back when I used to use Windows I was forced to close applications first. Definitely a great feature. Still curious as to how it works though.
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The running app is in your RAM - pacman is updating files in your filesystem.
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The running app is in your RAM - pacman is updating files in your filesystem.
Yeah but doesn't the application get overwritten with the new version? Are you saying the whole thing is in ram?
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Not all but close .
As tomk say running applications are in ram unless they have limits, and pacman is updating directly to your filesystem.
Of course there is not so U*ix way like debian apt, whitch restarts application after update. ( i wont debate on this )
O' rly ? Ya rly Oo
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