FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix

[Doug Barton]

On 09/30/2011 23:14, Sean wrote:
> 
> On 01/10/2011, at 3:12 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> On 09/30/2011 21:10, Mike Brown wrote:
>>> Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>> do I reboot for this one, or not?
>>>> The kernel is changed, so yes.
>>>
>>> Thanks. I had guessed a reboot was needed, but the advisory only mentioned a 
>>> reboot in the context of building the kernel from sources. Hopefully, when a 
>>> reboot is required, future advisories will mention it in the freebsd-update(8) 
>>> instructions.
>>
>> When would a reboot not be needed for a kernel change?
>>
> 
> When it's a kernel module either not loaded, not compiled in, or can be unloaded/reloaded?

I didn't say module, I said kernel.



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