Restart Required?!?!

For the longest time one of the great things to boast to Windows users about was OS X's ability to install system updates without reboots. Why are most of the updates coming out requiring reboots? What gives?!

Joe Raymond wrote:
I understand system file updates needing a reboot but lately even applications are needing reboots as well. Safari is an example.
Safari AFAIK includes some hooks into the system, as do some other apps.
Again, it's possible to stop a daemon or other running system program, update it and restart it. Many Unix servers do this to prevent downtime, but it is a complex routine and for most home users an unnecessary way to do it, since a home computer reboot cycle takes but a minute or two, whilst a Unix server might take a very long time.
A reboot every week or so should not be too bothersome. By my reckoning, the last update requiring a reboot was nearly a week ago.
In my case, I never install more than one update at a time, so if several apps require a reboot, I reboot once for each of them because I do not trust computers very much, and many times those who apply several updates at the same time experience issues.
I agree that reboots are not necessary, but they are not that inconvenient to most of us who do not leave our machines running 24/7 anyway.
For those who do not like the "restart required," they should simply install the updates before turning off the machine for the day, and the install will complete the next day when the machine is restarted, thereby not creating any extra restarts.
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