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Re: more prelink


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:04:36PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Jakub,
>     Noting your comments that /lib/ld.so.* shouldn't be prelinked
> in general without the users consent, I just noticed a flaw in 
> prelink of 20020923. If I do 'prelink -nav' and look at the
> proposed prelinking I see...
> 
> Would prelink /lib/ld-2.2.94.so
> 
> Perhaps it would be safer to not allow prelink to automatically
> prelink ld.so.* via the -a flag. Only allow prelink to prelink
> ld.so.* if it has been explicitly passed to prelink on the
> command line. That would prevent any accidental breakage from
> prelinking ld.so inadvertently.

Err, if you don't prelink ld.so, you might as well forget about prelinking.
In order to prelink a binary, all libraries it depends on must be prelinked
(and ld.so is always one of such libraries).

	Jakub


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