Re: libfastmint update 20040916 (was: comment on reducing padding)

Good timing.  I was just about to apply the previous cumulative patch,
and will do this one instead.

Adam

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:38:57PM +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >Yes I thought about this one also.  However the downside is one can no
> >longer easily verifying a stamp in script languages using the sha1sum
> >utility.  One first would have to undeo the padding compression.
> 
> Indeed.  This would add complexity which isn't strictly necessary.  
> Yes, the leading zeroes can look untidy, but few users will regularly 
> see this in their MUA.
> 
> While we're on the subject, I fixed the bug that made the count field 
> overlap the random field for certain resource lengths.  The revised 
> patch, against 1.08 once more, is attached - it simply makes sure the 
> count field is at least 8 bytes long.