On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:16:41AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just uploaded new snapshot releases of ld.elf_so(1) and prebind(1) to
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/junyoung .
> 
> What's new in this snapshot:
> 
> - With a couple of fatal bugs fixed, stability has been much more improved.
>   Tested with bash, GCC & toolchain, XFree86, mozilla, nedit, ddd, xmms,
>   and etc.
> 
> - Runtime performance has been improved. Now RelCache eliminates the need
>   for lazy binding.
> 
> - MD5 checksum has been replaced with 64-bit CRC32+Adler32. (Note: Adler32
>   is known to have problem with very small data (how small is 'very small'
>   data?), but it's not a problem in this case. Almost all ELF binaries are
>   at least 1KB long anyway. I don't think 1KB is very small) 
> 
> - Prebinding is now single step. You don't have to run 'LD_PREBIND=1 prog'
>   any more; just type 'prebind /foo/prog' (as root).

One more new feature:

- File sizes are compared when checking validity of shared objects.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>