Re: Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:33 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    I am going to attempt to install KDE on one of my test boxes.  If 
> we can
>    show a user-visible improvement in startup times then that is good
>    enough for me.  The code looks fairly safe to me (with the 
> additional
>    trust checks I posted earlier).
>
>    I suspect that Linux has higher general shared library overheads 
> then we
>    do, making prebinding more of a benefit to them.

I haven't had any free time to look at the Prebinding code yet. I take 
it that
it won't be the default option or at minimal an easy way to opt out of 
using
it ? From the FreeBSD impalemention I think some of what it is doing, 
is potentially
untouched area's for hijacking. I'll try to mark some time off tomorrow 
so I can look
a little further.


-DR