[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

[UNIX admin]

> There is a difference between driver installation for
> IPS and for SVR4. 
> Namely, installing an SVR4 package would load a
> driver immediately, 
> while IPS purposefully does not (currently).  To
> activate, you must 
> reboot, or manually load the driver.

What is the point of running a true UNIX system, which supports dynamically loadable modules, if one must reboot just to load the driver non-interactively?

Rebooting is something I know in the Windows world. On UNIX, drivers are loaded dynamically, because the operating system is perfectly capable of it.

Not providing for dynamic driver loading and forcing either a reboot or manual intervention is defeating one of the major reasons for choosing UNIX over alternatives like Windows.
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