Prelinking of shared libraries

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:19:51AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Exactly.  The idea is that the one configuration program (let's say
> ldconfig) loads all libraries into its address space, prelinks them
> and saves the prelinked files together with information where they
> should be mmapped.  The dynamic linker then reads this information and
> tries to mmap the prelinked libs into the same address as the
> configuration program.  If the mmap fails, the lib will be loaded as
> if it was not prelinked and relocated normally.

Note that the one configuration program has to work on most of system
binaries as well in addition to all libraries (well, again, does not have to
be all, just the most widely used majority).

	Jakub