[Centos] top 'command prelink'

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Fri, March 18, 2005 8:31 am, Feizhou said:
> Olaf Greve wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> Prelink is also available for other linux/unix variants ... and it
>>>> doesn't hog resources after it is done :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Unix variants?
>>
>>
>> Flavours, I guess. Solaris, *BSD, Linux, .... :)
>> (Or am I missing your point here?!?)
>>
>
> Well...I have yet to see another ELF binary Unix variant use prelink.
>
> *BSD? These guys avoid glibc like the plague don't they? I highly doubt
> any *BSD uses prelink at all.
>
> Solaris 10...Mac OS X...hmm...
>
> Even Debian does not use prelink yet.
>
> Right now prelink is only testing/unstable in Debian.
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Lots of new things are in testing and unstable only in debian ... it's
been a long time since a stable release.

Prelink is also available in most other Linux distros, like Mandrake,
Gentoo, etc.

BSD is using "Dynamic Linking" (similar to prelink) ... and with some
patches, you can prelink the Linux Libraries in BSD too.

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