<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">OK.. didn't notice adler32 wasn't rolling... </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">The reason I was asking is this:</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">this is from the rsync code:<div><br><div><div>/* a non-zero CHAR_OFFSET makes the rolling sum stronger, but is</div>
<div> incompatible with older versions :-( */</div><div>#define CHAR_OFFSET 0</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone knows exactly what an ideal value for CHAR_OFFSET is?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Julian</div></div>
</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/24 Julian Pace Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@prisma.com.mt">linux@prisma.com.mt</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'm curious if anybody knows the exact reason why the weak checksum calculation is slightly different to the standard adler-32 checksum as seen for example here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler-32" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler-32</a> ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Julian</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
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