Prelink hosed my binaries?

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:10:41PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> keep the old prelink and elfutils binaries around and try to reproduce
> the problem.  Jakub isn't available this week so this data would need to
> be preserved.  Compare the prelink binary itself, has it changed?
> prelink itself shouldn't have this effect but if prelink itself is
> corrupted...

I've had a one case where each new glibc makes sendmail crash and each
prelink fixes it, but Jakub knows about that.

Talking about corruption however does prelink create a new file it rewrites
into, and if not what happens when prelink prelinks itself ?