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Johannes Passing
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Johannes Passing writes Posts on Identity, access, and stuff, a personal blog at jpassing.com about security and programming. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Johannes Passing's 2011 post on Windows hotpatching as a source on Windows live-patching history, including kernel patching in Windows Server 2003 and why it was rarely used.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Johannes Passing's blog about identity and access management, Windows, security, cryptography, and other stuff
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-23
What Hacker News says?
>So for example if some services are needed to apply updates, they can never be updated without a reboot I wouldn't say never. Hotpatching was introduced in windows server 2003[1]. However, it's seldom available for windows update patches, and even if it's available, you have to opt-in (using a command line flag) to actually use it. [1] https://jpassing.com/2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
Comment linking /2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
on “Windows file access performance compared to Linux”Submitted Keep your software packages small as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMicrosoft actually went to great length to build an update mechanism that doesn't require reloading. It seems this is not so useful after all, and it's not being used: http://jpassing.com/2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
Comment linking /2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
on “Chrome has transcended version numbers”Submitted Creating AWS Request Signatures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWindows Server 2003 had a live patching feature [1] and it was also applicable to kernel patching according to [2]. For some reason it was quickly abandoned, though. [1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781109%28v=ws.... [2] http://jpassing.com/2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
Comment linking /2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
on “Live patching for Linux 3.20”