Does the on-disk image of an executable ever change?

[Matt Brodeur]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:25:26PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
>
>   There's that prelinking thing that RPM sometimes complains about,
> but I don't think that writes to the binaries themselves.

It does, but...


>   Just execute "rpm --verify --all", and RPM will verify every file in
> every package installed on the system.

..."rpm -V" should do a prelink-aware verify.  That is, unless that
behavior has changed since ~RHL9.

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