Grant Taylor  wrote:
> On 07/10/2018 10:02 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> the core c library
>
> Remember that the core C library is used by just about everything on the
> system.  Either directly or indirectly by using other libraries that use it.
>
> IMHO the core C library is only one degree less important than the
> kernel.  But it's still exceptionally important.

Ok, thanks to everybody for some well-written explanations. Clearly I should
have been rebooting all along and just didn't.

Maybe this is a more sensible question:

Is there a command that will save the present state of the system, reboot
and then pick up where it left off? Most network sessions will persist over
at least a brief outage, so web and ssh-sessions should survive if the
downtime doesn't last too long. At one time I encountered the notion of
"checkpointing" long running jobs which could then be restarted where they
left off after system maintenance was done, but that was 30+ years ago.

Thanks again for all your help!

bob prohaska

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