Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated >> executions on the same file giving different results. >> Now, I suspect I won't get much sympathy because I am >> accessing the remote file through a "stone_age_old"* >> (QNX4) Samba server through my Q: drive, but if there's >> a solution to this, I'd love to hear it as I use >> cksum to verify correct transfer of files.
> I expect if you did a capture of the traffic, you'd find the traffic > itself has inconsistent data... > 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. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, March 22, 2016 03:27:54 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
