On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:36:37PM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > Why is it "randomized" anyhow? Just numbering shares from 1 would produce > more reproducible results, thus making it more likely that problems > specific to a certain use case would get noticed before it's too late. > It probably would be easier to use for some purposes, too, if file names > were easier to predict.
Randomised so that you can easily strip the numbers and place them elsewhere and thereby make it harder to guess the share numbers. > BTW, the command line parser is pretty much completely broken if you judge > it by the error messages it produces even for completely valid values as > per its own help output. In case you want to fix that, too ... Back then I wasn't very good at cmdline parsers. Patch welcome. D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.digital-scurf.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
