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Re: Microsoft product vs Microsoft patch
From: Tonnerre Lombard <tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:25:57 +0200
Salut, On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 08:54 +0530, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote:
Ahhh well maybe we are forgetting the actual **for_real_men** technique for patching vulnerabilities and problems that can only be applied to GNU/ Linux like systems. The diff files (aka patch files), applied directly to the source code, can you match their efficiency in terms of bandwidth.
Excuse me, do you happen to use Gentoo? ;-) No customer in the right mind would do this though, especially since you can get problems with compiler bugs easily so no manually compiled package can ever be supported by any manufacturer, simply because the binary might always come out different, depending on the system configuration. Thus, there wouldn't be any way for the distributor to test and torture the packages, so no distributor in the right mind would ever want to waste time supporting your build. Binary patches, like with xdelta, don't share these problems. They do have a whole lot of different problems though which invalidate the measurement as well. Tonnerre -- SyGroup GmbH Tonnerre Lombard Loesungen mit System Tel:+41 61 333 80 33 Roeschenzerstrasse 9 Fax:+41 61 383 14 67 4153 Reinach BL Web:www.sygroup.ch tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch
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