From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 13 11:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54B1D37B723 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 19701 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Mar 2001 19:38:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:38:01 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010313213801.A19658@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <9871.984512117@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9871.984512117@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:35:17PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:35:17PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >I know that adding a ``SITE MD5 filename'' command to our ftpd > >is a *very* little step in a possibly wrong direction (this will > >not automagically make all the ftp daemons on all the distsites > >implement this command), but IMHO, it's a start. > > That's actually very clever thinking. > > You may want to make the command take two more arguments: > > SITE MD5 filename [offset [length]] > > That could be used to improve mirroring software a fair bit... Will do tomorrow; have to rush to a b-day party I'm already late for :) G'luck, Peter -- This would easier understand fewer had omitted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message