prelink should not mess with running executables

Jef Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 02:55:19 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Scott Schmit <i.grok at comcast.net> wrote:
> And what's the pathname of a deleted file?  Like it or not, that's a real
> possibility ("normal" as opposed to the result of an error condition or
> a bug), even if it's possibly not typical.
[details snipped]
> It gives you your current path name until that name no longer exists.
> Then it tells you that your path is deleted (though you could also have
> an executable ending in ' (deleted)').  If you access your file contents
> via the link, you'll still get your original file contents.

Thanks for the removal and recompile/replace examples. These clear it
up for me.

-jef


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