prelink should not mess with running executables

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Mon Jul 16 13:30:12 UTC 2012


On 07/15/2012 09:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I think that 99% of the problems that prelink is creating can be easily avoided
> simply by having prelink automatically skip executables that are currently
> running. This is something that should not be very difficult to do. All the
> information is trivially obtainable from /proc/*/exe.

That would mean that prelink would skip much of a running system, and a
full prelink could be done only by booting from separate media.  Not going
to happen.

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