[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Why do we have to restart after installing Missing Sync ?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:39 PM +0000 2004-11-02, Chris Ridd wrote:

>  Missing Sync installs some kernel extensions (check
>  /System/Library/Extensions). You should be able to unload the old ones and
>  load in the new ones automatically, but I guess it is hard to make the
>  installer do this (reliably?)

	Any time you start talking about kernel extensions, this sort of 
stuff gets nasty.  You can never be sure what other programs might be 
affected by the old kernel extensions when you try to unload them. 
You could very easily crash the machine, and potentially leave it in 
an unbootable state.

	Would you rather have that, or reboot?  Me, I'd choose to reboot.

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