From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 3 12: 2:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863A337B425 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g33K1b4F089757; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:01:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: comparing executables In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:45:28 -0800." Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 22:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: <89756.1017864096@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: > > >On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> >How can I find out which binaries have changed? >> >they are all different according to cksum so I assume >> >that there is a timestamp or something in them. >> >Is there a way to compare only the text segments? >> >> You can do wonders with objdump(1) and diff. > >hmmm ok.. >what about libraries? .a you take apart with ar(1), .so you're stuck as far as my knowledge goes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message