> Occasionally a diff like the following will appear in the daily > insecurity output mail: > > -OpenBSD 7.7 (GENERIC.MP) #625: (OLD DATE) > +OpenBSD 7.7 (GENERIC.MP) #2: (SOMEWHAT NEWER DATE) > > I originally thought this was the product of the kernel being re-linked > on boot, but diff, in this case, appeared months after the "somewhat > newer date" in the 2nd entry. > > Therefore, if this is the result of kernel re-linking, it took several > months for security(8) to notice. That doesn't seem likely. > > What's going on here?
Sounds exactly like the kind of change you would get after running syspatch to update the stable kernel to a slightly newer version. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
