Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:27:51AM -0500, Joe Nall wrote:
> Not until this bug is fixed :)
> prelink erases file-based capabilities
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456105

>From Jakub's 2004 paper on prelink, I see that it saves 1-2 seconds in
startup time for openoffice swriter. Half a second or less on kword,
konqueror, evolution, and epiphany. As computers get faster, prelink will
still save relative time, but the absolute difference will become less and
less perceptible. I know a second here and there adds up, but given the
downsides, sooner or later prelink should be revisited.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences