[coyotos-dev] DLL's

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 23/05/2007 hora 12:55:
> Finally, there is the issue that processes survive shutdown, and this
> violates many of our assumptions about how quickly a new DLL will be
> adopted by those applications that wish to do so.

Maybe the runtime system of the languages used should support live
update of the code, à la Lisp, to avoid this issue. I know that it is
harder to achieve in a staticly typed language, though.

Or do you intend to only replace entire processes? (which is more likely
to be doable in the context of Coyotos, I'd say)

> So in the end, this all folds in to a general "object upgrade" problem
> that is one of the really nasty sleeping dragons in the entire
> object-based system story.

Look at the bright side : at least that's an interesting problem!

Curiously,
Pierre
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