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-.TH prelink 8 "14 July 2002"
+.TH prelink 8 "5 August 2003"
.SH NAME
prelink \- prelink ELF shared libraries and binaries to speed up startup time
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ be assigned to all libraries.
Normally, only binaries or libraries which are either not prelinked yet, or
some of their dependencies changed, are prelinked.
.TP
+.B \-q \-\-quick
+Run prelink in quick mode. This mode checks just mtime and ctime timestamps
+of libraries and binaries stored in the cache file. If they are unchanged
+from the last prelink run, it is assumed that the library in question did
+not change and no parsing of its ELF headers and verifying it is done.
+.TP
.B \-p \-\-print\-cache
Print the content of the cache file (normally
.IR /etc/prelink.cache )
@@ -167,6 +173,22 @@ Similarly with message digests and checksums (unless you trigger the
unprobable case of modified file and original file having the same digest
or checksum).
.TP
+.B \-\-md5
+This is similar to
+.I \-\-verify
+option, except instead of outputing the content of the binary or library
+before prelinking to standard output MD5 digest is printed.
+See
+.BR md5sum (1).
+.TP
+.B \-\-sha
+This is similar to
+.I \-\-verify
+option, except instead of outputing the content of the binary or library
+before prelinking to standard output SHA1 digest is printed.
+See
+.BR sha1sum (1).
+.TP
.B \-V \-\-version
Print version and exit.
.TP