From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 16:15:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA07091 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:15:43 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07085; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:15:41 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id QAA00442; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:15:40 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502020015.QAA00442@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: SUP must die, CTM for president !! To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:15:39 -0800 (PST) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9492.791683994@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 1, 95 04:13:14 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 587 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Sometimes you want the entire file to be transferred. > > > > > CTM uses md5, so it will detect if people have corrupt files. > > > > Like in this case. > > But it's still too easy to confuse sup, so in many cases you won't get either > of the above, you'll get no file transfered and entirely bogus contents. > Poul's undeniably right about one thing: Sup's error correction sucks. Well, to be precise: sup's error detection sucks -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)