Hi Marc Good to know, thanks. Yes it is possible that it did a CRC16 check before. That would make sense as extracting the first five characters would have been a bit odd otherwise.
Hope the problem is solved now. :-) // Ola On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:26:02AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > 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 > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
