Prelinking

[A.J. Bonnema]

David Cornish wrote:
>>Could anyone give me summary of prelinking?
> 
>>From the Fedora core release notes 
> (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/)
> 
> "Prelinking is now enabled by default on Fedora Core 1. Prelinking reduces the 
> time taken by the dynamic linker when starting programs. It does this by 
> performing some of the dynamic linker's tasks ahead of time, and is done on a 
> regular basis via cron. The current prelink behavior is controlled by the 
> /etc/sysconfig/prelink file."
> 
> More info can be got from "man prelink" (also available from 
> http://handhelds.org/~pb/prelink.8.html)
> 
> 
>>What are advantages /
>>disadvantages of disabling prelinking?
> 
> 
> Gentoo's pages on Prelinking give some of the advantages of and problems with 
> prelink:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

Thank you very much. This is exactly what I needed.

Guus.
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