Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available.

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

> how does it know?

Each executable or library contains a unique BUILDID.

The BUILDID for each library is stored in the prebind file to use for
validating the file.

-- 
| Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
| winter at jurai.net |       2 x '84 Volvo 245DL        | ix86,sparc,pmax |
| http://www.jurai.net/~winter |  For Great Justice!  | ISO8802.5 4ever |