On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:15 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:09:25PM +0100, John Horne wrote: > > I have been trying to find out if a prelinked files size always remains > > the same. Some simple testing of unprelinking and then prelinking a file > > seems to indicate that the eventual size of the file does remain the > > same. I know that the files MD5 hash value, its inode number, and some > > other file attributes change, but I was wondering about the file size. > > Whilst the file does change size when going from unprelinked to > > prelinked (or vice-versa), once it is prelinked it then seems to remain > > the same regardless of how often the file is re-prelinked. > > That's certainly not guaranteed. For prelinked shared libraries after > reprelinking the size might change if due to some dependent library > upgrade there are fewer or more dependencies. > Yes, very good points. Many thanks. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
