From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 3 12:48:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A23937B43D for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g33KnSe18809; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:49:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:49:28 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Julian Elischer , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: comparing executables Message-ID: <20020403154928.A18216@locore.ca> References: <89756.1017864096@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <89756.1017864096@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:01:36PM +0200 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 Apparently, On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:01:36PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp said words to the effect of; > 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. objdump works on both of these, the addresses won't be resolved though. > > -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message