On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:14:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I assume you discovered this case by inspection of the code rather > than in actual practice. This would be a very unlikely case to ever > hit in real life. If it did then it would produce one spurious cron > email out of years of runs.
It happened on a real system often enough for me to notice, investigate and find the issue. Is it possible that cksum used to do a CRC16 some time ago? It certainly provides a bigger checksum nowadays, so the issue does probably not appear any more. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
