### 8.5 Binding policy NOW ¶

The GCC optional linker option of `-Wl,z,now` for the binding policy NOW forces the program to load and link completely and marks its GOT read-only with the `-Wl,z,relro` option before turning over control to the program.

Since this option causes start-up slowdown for large applications, this is not enabled by default. But this option may be interesting for the security conscious network daemons.