On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:39:40 +0100, Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>  said:
> Would anyone know of a proven way to completely restart the userland
> of a Linux system?

This would be distinct from 'shutdown -r' how?  Is there a reason you
want to "completely" restart userland and *not* reboot (for instance,
wanting to keep existing mounts, etc)?

A case could be made that for a "complete" restart, you need to trash
those mounts too (if you're restarting to get a 'clean' setup, you want
to actually be clean), and so forth.