Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken crashes when updating eggs

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:25:21PM +0200, Thomas Chust wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it's probably important to know under which operating system this problem 
> occurs.

Sorry, should've stated this.  I run NetBSD, which is, or at least aims to
be, POSIX-compliant.

<snip>

> Maybe if you try to recompile the eggs you want to update, then delete the 
> old versions of their .so-files and only then install the new .so-files, 
> your processes will keep running without segmentation faults, if you are 
> using a POSIX system.

Maybe it's a good idea to implement this behaviour in chicken-setup, then,
if that indeed fixes it.

> To actually have your processes use the new library versions, though, 
> restarting them is probably unavoidable.

Of course.  This is preferable to crashing.

Regards,
Peter
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