Just curious
Tom Horsley
tom.horsley at att.net
Fri Sep 26 09:30:17 UTC 2008
Can anyone provide a rational explanation why so many
linux distros (fedora among them) ship by default with
both the prelinker and the kernel address space randomizer
enabled?
Aren't they just a wee bit mutually contradictory?
The prelinker spending hours running cron jobs to try
and make firefox load 1 millisecond faster by having
the shared libs already relocated to a known base
address.
And the randomizer trying to keep any shared lib from
ever being loaded at the same base address twice in a row.
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