prelink should not mess with running executables

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sun Jul 15 23:52:27 UTC 2012


Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> said:
> I would expect that /proc/self/exe symlink gives the name of the running  
> executable. I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation.

There are lots of ways that can fail already; prelink is just one.
Running "yum update" can break it as well (not every process is
restarted in %post).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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