Patent ID: 7275251
Filing Date: 2007-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for selectively restarting processes based on API changes, comprising: receiving at a network device a new container that includes a new implementation of an API; accessing stored information in memory of the network device, to identify one or more processes that utilize an old implementation of the API; updating said stored information to indicate the one or more processes that utilize the new implementation of the API in the new container; dynamically linking the one or more processes with the API in the new container; and selectively restarting the one or more processes utilizing a processor of the network device so that the one or more processes can utilize the new implementation of the API in the new container, without restarting processes unaffected by the new API implementation; wherein said old implementation of the API and identification of said one or more processes that utilized said old implementation of the API are maintained in said memory.