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

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 1 05:38:02 UTC 2011


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?

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