prelink should not mess with running executables

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil at redhat.com
Mon Jul 16 15:20:01 UTC 2012


On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:42:00 +0200, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> And I wouldn't be so presumptions as to state authoritatively what
> is or is not a bug, in something whose purpose is not known to me.

Non-existing /proc/self/exe file is a normal UNIX process state so a UNIX
process not being able to cope with it should be fixed.


> >This is a bug of yum, it should run prelink for any updated software.

This is an obvious yum issue, up to yum, I have not filed the yum Bug now.


> >This is a bug of the intrusion detections software which should
> >run documented
> >way:
> >	prelink -u -o - /bin/bash | read the original binary
> >
> >This is a bug of cron, this problem affects me also for nightly updates and
> >nightly build and regression testing jobs.

After the mail with Tomas Mraz who does not want the fix placed into cron
I have filed it for the prelink Fedora packaging:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840557


> What would be the Bugzilla entries for all these bugs you've just discovered?

I do not know what is the 'intrusion detections software' package so I cannot
file a Bug for it.


Jan


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