Re: suggestion for bitorrent: auto updates of DLs

Mike Ravkine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's implicit.. there's no other way to make sure 2 different .torrent 
creation programs on 2 different OSs will generate the same torrent file 
given the same input files.
I came across this issue when writing MakeTorrent, and decided to follow 
completedir's example of sorting the file list.

--kRYPT

Olaf van der Spek wrote:

>Mike Ravkine wrote:
>  
>
>>You can't "sort by hash" because individual files are not hashed.
>>
>>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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