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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
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Subject: Re: Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available.
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> if you've prebound..
> what happens when you eventually replace your library with a new version
> (say, to fix a bug)..
>
> does it revert to run-time binding?

Yes.

> how does it know?

Each executable or library contains a unique BUILDID.

The BUILDID for each library is stored in the prebind file to use for
validating the file.

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