On 17 Oct 2014 16:24, "Patrick Bervoets" patrick.bervoets@psc-elsene.be wrote:

One of the services that has to be restarted after the openssl update is

samba.

And now I wonder if I can safely restart samba when there are possible

files in-use (ie writes could be happening).

I can't find an answer on Google (could be me asking the wrong questions)

If you check the process tree you'll see that there is an smb process forked per connection.

This is similar to sshd behaviour.

The existing connections are not killed only the listening process itself.

New connections will use the new libraries/config

Incidentally this is why it can be important when changing share paths or certain other config (allow lists for instance) to use smbstatus and check for any existing connections to that share to kill to make sure that no one is picking up old config.