Subject: Re: RelCache (aka ELF prebinding) news
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/2002 22:11:27
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:03:10PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:43:43PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > With RelCache all conflicts are already resolved, so there's no need
> > to maintain conflicts list like Red Hat prelink.
> 
> You: ELF semantics prevent us from using one cache file per shared library.
> I: I don't think so.

You should read my "RelCache vs. Red Hat prelink".

> You: yes, but not using one cache file per shared library works too.

It's faster, easy to port, a lot simpler & smaller, etc. Why do you
want a complicated, not easy to port, bigger, and slower one?

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>