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Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive
- From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:37:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Erik Soderquist!
<snip>
>> My first suspicion is that there is very little you can do from the
>> cygwin side outside of something like doing 5 consecutive tests and
>> take the most consistent result.
>
> Since SMB (especially in stone-age implementations) uses TCP, I would expect
> data transfer to be free of errors of such nature.
I _expect_ it too, but that has not been my experience. TCP will
happily carry wrong data as long as the TCP packet itself seems
intact.
-- Erik
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