PATCH: Add updelfhdr

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Jan 5 19:09:00 GMT 2010


Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

>> My program updates files in place. It doesn't read in the whole file
>> into memory.
>
> Couldn't all of this be achieve via a simple script ?  Say in perl or
> ruby ?  Is there really a need for a whole new program ?

And if there is a need for a whole new program, shouldn't it permit
more general manipulations of the ELF file, and thus deserve a name
other than updelfhdr?  elfcopy?

Ian



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