[Distutils] Installing packages using pip

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as> wrote:

> What you can do Linux that you cannot do on Windows is delete a shared
> library file while it's mapped into a process's address space.  Then
> Linux lets you create a new file with the same name, while the old file
> stays around, nameless, until it's no longer used, at which point the
> disk space gets garbage-collected.  (If we can call reference counting
> "garbage collection".)
>
> The result is as you said: existing processes keep running the old code
> until you restart them.  There are tools (based on lsof, AFAIU) that
> check for this situation and remind you to restart daemons.
>

​Not sure what exactly was going on but whenever I did that on linux I got
the most peculiar segfaults and failures. It is certainly not a safe thing
to do, even if linux lets you do it.​



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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