prelink should not mess with running executables

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Jul 20 11:10:18 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:08:39AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >??? prelink most certainly does NOT restart every daemon.  prelink
> >restarts init because historically init didn't always re-exec itself at
> >shutdown, which in turn caused the root filesystem to not be cleanly
> >unmounted.
> 
> There was no need to reexec init until prelink came along.

False.  glibc %post had to (and still does AFAIK) rexec init too.

	Jakub


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