ELF Binary Stripper?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Peter Gordon wrote:

>Mike McCarty said:
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>>One *known* effect (not a side effect) is that the binary you execute is
>>not the binary which went through QA.
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>So that brings up a good point to me: Why doesn't Red Hat just distribute
>already-prelinked binaries? Would it be overly difficult to get their build
>system to do this? 
>
That would only be useful if the software in the system is static.  As 
long as the software is updated, prelinking is a process that needs to 
be run regularly inorder for the system to get any benefits out of it.

regards
Rahul