[Mono-dev] What would you like to see in Mono?

[Zoltan Varga]

                                            Hi,

  I always tought that shadow copying is only needed on windows. AFAIK, on unix,
you can overwrite the assemblies currently loaded by the runtime, but you need
to delete the original file beforehand. The unix file system allows processes to
read from the files which were deleted after they were opened by the process.

                                                                    Zoltan

On 3/30/06, Gonzalo Paniagua Javier <gonzalo at ximian.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 19:41 -0300, Rafael Teixeira wrote:
>
> > We need to implement shadow copying to allow for changes on running
> > assemblies (but aside from ASP.NET where it is enabled by default,
> > even on MS' .NET one need to turn it on explicitly for every AppDomain
> > that needs it).
> > That turns on-the-fly updates for plugins, and even whole-apps, a real
> > possibility.
>
> I have a prototype of this, but run into some hard to debug problem in
> the runtime. I'm waiting for some help from the runtime guys to finish
> the implementation of this feature.
>
> -Gonzalo
>
>
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