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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by saagarjha on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:36PM (#26351820)
The kernel is aware when files are modified.
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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by anyfoo on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:52PM (#26352428)
That's not generally applicable, e.g. not if files are on an external drive, or worse, a network filesystem (where they can change even during use).
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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by saagarjha on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:32AM (#26366742)
In which case falling back on a hash is fine.
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