Back in the turn of the century somebody thought it was a neat idea to completely compromise system security to improve program start-up start-up times a wee bit. Since then, people have thankfully started coming to their senses and removed prelink from distros entirely.
Lets stop papering over the security disaster: we obviously cannot stop people from using prelink, but instead of trying to undo the damage for verification purposes, we'll now report such a system as compromised. Which is how it should be, IMNSHO. This eliminates a whole lot of extra junk from each and every file digest calculation that we do, so it might even show up on somebodys performance charts. Inspired by a patch to eliminate a rendundant double open of regular files in rpmDoDigest() from Denys Vlasenko, taken a little further... You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/701 -- Commit Summary -- * Stop papering over the security disaster known as prelink -- File Changes -- M macros.in (10) M rpmio/rpmfileutil.c (164) -- Patch Links -- https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/701.patch https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/701.diff -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/701
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