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| author | hulkoba <jacoba@neighbourhood.ie> | 2024-02-26 14:35:53 +0100 |
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| committer | hulkoba <jacoba@neighbourhood.ie> | 2024-03-27 07:12:02 +0100 |
| commit | b52820773b9e7b38aa28000790d8e1aeba3b8438 (patch) | |
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| parent | docs/UIDS-GIDS: format text (diff) | |
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docs/ELF_PKG_METADATA: format text
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diff --git a/docs/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA.md b/docs/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA.md index 6cb3f785b4..176f574e91 100644 --- a/docs/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA.md +++ b/docs/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA.md @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ or parse ELF core files.* ## Motivation -ELF binaries get stamped with a unique, build-time generated hex string identifier called -`build-id`, [which gets embedded as an ELF note called `.note.gnu.build-id`](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId). +ELF binaries get stamped with a unique, build-time generated hex string identifier called `build-id`, +[which gets embedded as an ELF note called `.note.gnu.build-id`](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId). In most cases, this allows to associate a stripped binary with its debugging information. It is used, for example, to dynamically fetch DWARF symbols from a debuginfo server, or to query the local package manager and find out the package metadata or, again, the DWARF |