ELF Binary Stripper?

[Mike McCarty]

Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:58 -0400, Chris Spencer wrote:
> 
>>I have an ELF binary with a zip file attached and something in Fedora is 
>>breaking it by stripping the zip file on a daily basis. Could a cron 
>>process be responsible?
> 
> 
> Probably "prelink".
> 
> Have a look in /etc/cron.daily. My FC3 installation calls prelink daily.
> prelink modifies ELF binaries to speed up startup time.
> 
> Cheers, Ben

Yes, my guess as well. IMO prelink is worse than useless.
When my machine gets slow, and I notice the disc going crazy,
it's prelink.

Why does it even exist? I put an image on my disc, I want it
left alone, not fiddled with. If I wanted it fiddled with, I'd
fiddle it myself, or make a special install script which did
the fiddling.

Get rid of it's presence in cron, I say.

Mike
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