(f23) no more prelink?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 10:08:59 UTC 2016


On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:46:38 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:

> Yes, it has been obsoleted in F23.  Not only was the performance increase debatable it
> also presented a security problem in that the libraries were locally modified making the
> verification of them difficult and putting the integrity of systems at risk.

Not to mention that with library randomization, it was utterly
and completely useless. It prelinked libs to load at a particular
address, then the kernel loaded them at another random address,
thus requiring relocation anyway. The first thing I ever did in
any new installation was turn off prelink :).


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