On Saturday, Feb 8, 2003, at 09:24 Australia/Sydney, Stan Kerr wrote:
On a MacOS X 10.2.3 system I'm getting crash logs from something called 'fix_prebinding' when running the TSM 5.1 client. TSM continues to run, and does successful backups, as far as I can tell; the crashes appear to occur on input actions (keypresses, mouse clicks). I didn't get such crashes when running MacOS X 10.1. Does anyone know what this is and whether it can be eliminated?
fix_prebinding is a Mac OS X daemon that is launched whenever a binary is executed that has out-of-date dynamic linking prebinding hints. It is supposed to scan the binary and dependent libraries, and update the hints in the binary. The benefit is faster launch times the next time it is run.
If the environment variable DYLD_NO_FIX_PREBINDING is exported in the environment when the TSM client is launched, the prebinding update won't be attempted. BTW, If you leave it exported all the time, you may find Mac OS X starts to slow down noticeably. I'm a little surprised the daemon is crashing. I might download the client and try it on my 10.2.3 box... Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/DBA 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin: 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late. -- Koos van den Hout
