Ideally we'd hash the file contents, but that's going to be too slow to do on every startup. Checking the expected size is a good compromise. It's a fast sanity check that should catch the most common problems.
--Scott -----Original Message----- From: Steffen Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:52 AM To: Scott Stanton Cc: Henry Wu; [email protected] Subject: Re: problem with pp Hi Scott, thanks for chiming in. Scott Stanton schrieb: > I think the problem can be resolved with the following patch. Give it a > try and let me know how it goes. I think your patch resolves the specific issue. However, is there a case where testing -f might not be enough? Should we make sure the size is the same just in case a extraction was interrupted? Best regards, Steffen
