prelink should not mess with running executables

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jan Kratochvil writes:

> 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

It is anything but "normal". The "normal" state of things is documented by  
proc(5). As documented by that man page, rather plainly,  
readlink("/proc/self/exe") gives you your own pathname. That's the "normal"  
state of things, if "normal" means anything. When that no longer holds true,  
that's not "normal".

> process not being able to cope with it should be fixed.

Broken maintenance scripts, of dubiuous benefit, that randomly rewrite  
unrelated binaries, should be fixed.


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