Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:36:41 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: add MD5Chunk(filename, .., offset, length) to libmd Message-ID: <20010316223641.D8968@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200103162000.NAA16923@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:00:17PM %2B0000 References: <20010316214310.A8968@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103162000.NAA16923@usr02.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:00:17PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > >As phk pointed out in the SITE MD5 thread, it is sometimes useful > > > >to compute the MD5 hash over a range of a file. I agree this is trivial > > > >to implement, but why not have it in our standard toolbox? > > > > > > If you include manpage patches I'll commit it. > > > > Thanks! :) > > > Please implement the "File" version as a special case of "Chunk", > instead of duplicating all that code. I realize that it's > unlikely that these algorithms will ever change, causing the > code to get out of sync, but duplicate code is generally a bad > idea. Will do; thanks for the (obvious, yet something I missed) idea! G'luck, Peter -- No language can express every thought unambiguously, least of all this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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