[mwhicks1]

If such states are preserved while the process that used them is still running then there is nothing to do: They will still be available to the updated program.

[billconan]

I was thinking about memory mapped resources, like memory mapped io. and resource references.

maybe you are right, there might be no problem. I need to read the paper to understand better.

[mwhicks1]

Yes, memory mappings should be preserved, so I can't immediately think why it wouldn't work.