[Gllug] coreutils checksums

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:30:52PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2011, Richard W. M. Jones said:
> > Yeah, prelink's design is stupid.  Writing to /usr was always going to
> > be a bad idea; it should have been written to store metadata about
> > each file somewhere else, eg. under /var.
> 
> That's not practical without much larger changes to ld.so (to read this
> metadata) than were needed for prelink. Also the extra directory and
> file lookups would have slowed the loading process right back down
> again, negating prelink's effect.

Quite probably.  Better would be not to prelink at all, since I've not
noticed any difference from using it on some machines and turning it
off on others.  Then again, I guess I don't use OpenOffice.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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