On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 10:25, John Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > > My understanding though was that prelinking was now basically > > deprecated. We used to use it on CentOS 6 and partly with 7, but, > > as far as I remember, the general advice was then not to use it (no > > real advantage in using it). So we haven't used it since a year or > > two after the patch. As far as I can tell it no longer exists with > > RedHat 8 or 9. Although RedHat/CentOS 7 still has it, the O/S is in > > maintenance mode, and, like us, I suspect people are upgrading those > > servers within the next couple of years. So even if they are using > > prelinking, it will only be for a relatively short while longer (and > > I can't actually remember anyone else mentioning over the years that > > they have a timeout/hang problem). > > > Yeah. I don't think any RHEL (or clone) since 7 has used it. Fedora dropped > it about 6 to 8 years ago and I believe other operating systems did so also > as it caused a lot of issues. EL7 ends support in 2024 and I don't think it > would be useful to continue it.
Thanks for your replies. Then I'll completely remove the prelink code in AIDE 0.18. Best regards Hannes _______________________________________________ Aide mailing list [email protected] https://www.ipi.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide
