Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available.

[Julian Elischer]

A stupiv question..

if you've prebound.. 
what happens when you eventually replace your library with a new version
(say, to fix a bug)..

does it revert to run-time binding?  

how does it know?

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > I try to determine how this influences the ports collection...
> > >
> > > Do we have to include the prebinding information in a package or can we
> > > omit them (I assume: we can omit them but it would be beneficial)?
> >
> > Speaking of ports... gotta wonder what this does to LD_PRELOAD
> > for things like "runsocks"...
> 
> Nothing.  The order and number of objects is validated against the prebind
> file.  If they differ from expected no prebinding occurs.
> 
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