State transfer for clear and efficient runtime updates

• Published in: 2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops pp. 179 - 184
• Main Authors: Hayden, C M, Smith, E K, Hicks, M, Foster, J S
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Cognition; Libraries; Operating systems; Program processors; Runtime; Servers; Steady-state

Dynamic software updating (DSU), the practice of updating software while it executes, is a lively area of research. The DSU approach most prominent in both commercial and research systems is in-place updating, in which patches containing program modifications are loaded into a running process. Howev...