Questions about Prelinking in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Issue

  • Why is this default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
  • What benefits, security/performance/etc, does it provide?
  • What adverse affects would we see if we turned it off?
  • What is prelinking?
  • How can I filter out executables from being tuned with prelink?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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