From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 3 16:24:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.openet-telecom.com (mail.openet-telecom.com [62.17.151.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4E537B405 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gpo.openet-telecom.lan (unverified) by mail.openet-telecom.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:33:51 +0100 Received: from [192.170.13.155] by gpo.openet-telecom.lan with HTTP; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:19:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:19:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8F04A10000036B@gpo.openet-telecom.lan> In-Reply-To: <3CAB6E05.EB505842@mindspring.com> From: peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com Subject: Re: comparing executables To: "Terry Lambert" , "Julian Elischer" Cc: "FreeBSD current users" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >Compare them without the ELF headers, a section at a time, so >that the timestamps are irrelevent. From what I recall, there _are_ no timestamps in ELF images, and compiling the same executable multiple times locally here seems to bear out the fact: "cmp" on two successive outputs is identical. The only timestamps that could be there would be in the ident/which strings buried in the code, which would appear in the ELF section payload: so stripping off the headers won't help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message