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Re: Re[4]: Doing Stupid things?!



I think I meant strip -all or other such things. If you really want to see
if it's stripped of publics, try less libc.so.5 and then /printf. What you
say is, that the object can be stripped safely with the *standard* options
of the command, yes ?

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Peter Lorand Peres <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> >  Are you sure ? I think I remember that ELF linking resolves by name, and
> >  those are symbols, no ?
> 
> $ldd /usr/bin/file
>       libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
> $file /lib/libc.so.5
> /lib/libc.so.5: symbolic link to libc.so.5.4.23
> $file /lib/libc.so.5.4.23
> /lib/libc.so.5.4.23: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 386, version 1,
> stripped
> 
> Do you see the word "stripped"? Do you see the `file' linked against the
> _stripped_ library and nevertheless does work?
> 
> Evgeny
> 
> >  On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> >  
> >  > Eli Marmor <marmor@elmar.co.il> wrote:
> >  > >  It is forbidden to strip shared libraries
> >  > 
> >  > It's incorrect, at least for Linux/ELF. I do it all the time.Did you mean
> >  "it
> >  > is forbidden to strip shared libraries _currently_ being used by a
> >  process"?
> >  > Since libc is used by init (I concern here the original poster), it was
> >  fatal
> >  > :-)
> 
> 
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