Subject: Re: RelCache (aka ELF prebinding) news
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/04/2002 12:38:49
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:26:46PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> >  - for N programs loading the shared libc, you get N prebound
> >    cache files?
> 
> Right. (Per shared object cache breaks the ELF semantics) 

Can you explain this in a bit more detail for ELF-unaware people like me?

Having this much cache files around sucks badly, btw.

Martin
P.S.: if ELF breaks all this, can't we switch to a sane object format?
(ducks)