prelink should not mess with running executables

[Sam Varshavchik]

Chris Adams writes:

> 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).

Yes, but that can be controlled, by doing the right thing via all the rpm  
hooks.

These factors can be controlled. prelink cannot be.


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