RFC: ELF prelinker - 0.1.1

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  4, 2001, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:

> It has already an --all mode, so if your libraries/binaries have reserved
> .dynamic entries (that is a precondition for prelinking) and if you have
> glibc patched with the included patch installed, you can e.g. just
> prelink -avmR (prelink all, be verbose, conserve virtual memory usage
> 	       by only assigning non-overlapping virtual address space slots
> 	       to libraries which appear together and start at random base,
> 	       so that exploiting buffer overruns is slightly more difficult)
> and it will prelink all binaries and needed libraries from directory trees
> specified in /etc/prelink.conf.

This seems to be a very nice piece of work!  Congrats, Jakub!

I'm wondering whether you already support something like `take these
libraries into account, but don't change them'.  This would be nice to
do incremental prelinking against system libraries, but still as a
regular user, for example, right after building a bunch of new
libraries and in preparation to replacing them in the system.

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