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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-12-29T22·08+0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-12-29T22·08+0000 |
commit | 4f07ebc67e74629724c441352a58b12143383129 (patch) | |
tree | 52fad623c7192402e2d8960dc6c259dff66779b2 /src/bsdiff-4.2/bsdiff.1 | |
parent | 54d8f0858825e9ae4c8fdf54b7c2019edee05237 (diff) |
* Integrated bsdiff/bspatch 4.2 (from
http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.2.tar.gz) into the source tree. The license is a bit peculiar, but it does allow verbatim copying, which is what we do here (i.e., so don't make any changes to the sources).
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diff --git a/src/bsdiff-4.2/bsdiff.1 b/src/bsdiff-4.2/bsdiff.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8d3926d3298c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/bsdiff-4.2/bsdiff.1 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.Dd May 18, 2003 +.Dt BSDIFF 1 +.Os FreeBSD +.Sh NAME +.Nm bsdiff +.Nd generate a patch between two binary files +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Ao Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +compares +.Ao Ar oldfile Ac +to +.Ao Ar newfile Ac +and writes to +.Ao Ar patchfile Ac +a binary patch suitable for use by bspatch(1). +When +.Ao Ar oldfile Ac +and +.Ao Ar newfile Ac +are two versions of an executable program, the +patches produced are on average a factor of five smaller +than those produced by any other binary patch tool known +to the author. +.Pp +.Nm +uses memory equal to 17 times the size of +.Ao Ar oldfile Ac , +and requires +an absolute minimum working set size of 8 times the size of oldfile. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bspatch 1 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Colin Percival Aq cperciva@daemonology.net |