On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:22:55 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 9/16/2011 12:57, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> You specified servers and desktops - not appliance devices.
> 
> No I didn't.  I was responding to someone else's comment of
> 
>  >> Heathen! Linux machines do not need to be rebooted. Ever.
> 
> That didn't say "Linux machines with a full development environment
> installed and to which you have root access never have to be rebooted."
> That's my point here. :-)

That's fair.  You wrote your reply to a message I wrote, so clearly I 
thought you were responding to what I said.

>> I've never had a need to, so I don't know.  Presumably you could stop a
>> service or unload/reload a driver, or drop to single user mode and then
>> go back to the default runlevel.
> 
> Cool. How do I drop to single-user mode on my cell phone?

Probably depends on the phone.  Like I said, I've never needed to find 
out, so I don't know.

> Again, you're making assumptions that the linux in your phone (or your
> cable box or your credit card terminal) is like the linux in your
> desktop or server machine.

Linux is a kernel.  I'm not making assumptions about the kernel.

Jim

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