reboot needed after patch ?

From: Bob Vickers <bobv_at_cs.rhul.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:18:50 +0100 (BST)

Dear All,

I've just installed patch OSFPATC0011702445 to Tru64 4.0G and it says

* A system reboot of the patched system is required for the successfully
installed patches.

To me this seems barmy: the patch has only supplied one file /usr/bin/ipcs
and no processes are executing this. Am I right in thinking this advice
was written by someone with a lawyer looking over his shoulder and has no
relevance to the real world where reboots are to be avoided if at all
possible?

Thanks,
Bob

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