prelink performance gains

Josh Bressers bressers at redhat.com
Mon Oct 14 17:56:00 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> 
> All very well and nice, but what does this have to do with the Security
> List ?
> 
> Also, most people will switch off pre-linking on servers, due to
> erroneous reports of lib and binary changes, that are caused by pre-linking.
> 

I told Dhiru we should start with this list because if we disable prelink,
we get ASLR support for many things. I *suspect* prelink isn't giving us
much gain anymore, but it will be helpful to see what others think, and
what they see.

Thanks.

-- 
Josh Bressers / Red Hat Product Security Team


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