Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 07:01:34 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available. Message-ID: <CBA3E35C-8F71-11D7-B920-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030525202140.Y86964@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>> I was more concerned with simplicity; the method I use solves the >>> problem >>> with minimal effort and complexity. The combination of time() + >>> random() >>> + filename will not collide on a single box. >> >> But it can across NFS, right? > > Uh... If you want to share /var/db/prebind via NFS I suppose you can. > I'm not sure how a practical NFS environment would result in a greater > chance of collisions. Regardless, there is no real penalty for > collisions > (other than prebinding not being available for that executable.) > Diskless cluster nodes is a practical NFS configuration involving the sharing of basically everything.
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