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Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:00:19 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> We don't have crc32 on lisp level (this is what the cksum program
> uses). But there is md5, maybe it could be used instead. I'm not so
> familiar with hash algorithms, so I don't know whether this is good
> enough.

crc32 is weak anyway.  A weaker check that *is* easily available is the
file's size.


        Stefan




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