Re: suggestion for bitorrent: auto updates of DLs

Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
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Mike Ravkine wrote:
> You can't "sort by hash" because individual files are not hashed.
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> They are however sorted by path/filename for consistency.

That's what Brian said already.
But what part of the specs specifies this sort step?

http://bittorrent.com/protocol.html
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>>>Even if you're talking about just adding new files and not modifying
>>>existing ones, it doesn't really fit in with BT.  The way it works now
>>>is that the list of files is sorted by path/filename and then the hashes
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>>Is that how it works? I didn't know about the sort and have never seen it.
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