prelink should not mess with running executables

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> said:
> A means for authenticating a filesystem domain socket's peer. Receive the  
> peer's credentials, then check /proc/pid/exe and /proc/self/exe. If they're 
> same, the daemon is talking to another instance of itself.

Is there anything that actually does that and depends on the result?
Such a check would be inherently racey.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.