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Re: supporting deterministic 'ar'

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Chris Demetriou wrote:

Right, so, I didn't mean to make it seem like people had to repeat
existing suggestions... but I don't particularly like any of them.

How about testable or comparable or predictable?

Also, the concept I'm trying to get across here is, "build
bit-identical outputs from bit-identical inputs."  That's more general
than "no-stamp."

The reason why i like "deterministic" for this is because it states
clearly (at least to me): same input -> same output.  (One might claim
that uid/gid and current time *are* inputs... I suspect most users
don't view them as such.)


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