ELF Binary Stripper?

[Mike McCarty]

John Wendel wrote:
> Ron Yorston wrote:
> 
>> John Wendel wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I ran it again. "time prelink -av --force > foo"
>>> I took 2 minutes 42 seconds, CPU was 16 seconds. Again, only one line
>>> in the output file.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is very puzzling.  What happens if you run "prelink -uav" first,
>> to undo any existing prelinking?
>>
>> Ron
>>
> 
> 
> [1] Ran "prelink -uav". It ran for 2 minutes 45 seconds and produced a 
> lot of disk noise but no output.
> 
> [2] Rebooted.
> 
> [3] Ran "prelink -av --force".  Same result as before, it ran for a few 
> minutes and produced 1 line of output.
> 
> I checked /usr/bin and /usr/lib, the timestamps on the files haven't 
> been updated. Does a normal prelink run cause the file timestamps to be 
> changed?
> 
> I'm baffled! Any more suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John

Here are my results:

# prelink -ua
# date > prelink.out
# prelink -av >> prelink.out
# date >> prelink.out
# cat prelink.out
Thu Oct 13 12:50:07 CDT 2005
Laying out 550 libraries in virtual address space 00101000-50000000
Assigned virtual address space slots for libraries:
[3640 lines cut]
Prelinking /usr/bin/renice
Thu Oct 13 13:14:33 CDT 2005

That's 24 minutes of solid activity, during which time starting
a new shell took 15 seconds.

Mike
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