build id computation

Jan Blunck jblunck@suse.de
Tue Nov 18 11:26:00 GMT 2008


For computing the build id following things are used:

- the ELF header, without e_phoff and e_shoff
- all segments content
- all sections content

Is there any particular reason for doing that?

I think that it would be enough to account only the load segments and/or the
allocated sections. Besides that the number of program or sections headers
should be ignored as well as the section header string table index.

Comments?

Regards,
	Jan

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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>



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