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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To: Lewis Watson <lists@visionsix.com>
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:58:33AM -0500, Lewis Watson wrote:
> I have upgraded my 4.8 box to 4.8 p1. How do I verify what applications
> need to be patched 

Recompiling static applications is the only sure-fire way.  You may be
able to use ident(1) to determine if a statically-linked application
uses realpath, but probably not.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se