Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263963AbTH1Mlu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263962AbTH1Mlu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:41:50 -0400 Received: from 19.Red-213-97-251.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.251.19]:14493 "EHLO linalco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263963AbTH1Mks (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:40:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:44:04 +0200 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa To: David Schwartz Cc: Timo Sirainen , Jamie Lokier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lockless file reading Message-ID: <20030828124404.GA11988@linalco.com> References: <1062061038.1459.240.camel@hurina> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Edited-With-Muttmode: muttmail.sl - 2001-09-27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 16 On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:56:29AM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > No two data sets with the same MD5 hash are known. It will be many, many > years before anyone finds two data sets of the same size with the same MD5 > hash. The odds of having two data sets just happen to have the same MD5 has > are infinitesimal. It can happen. It happened to me with two gifs. FWIW. -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Specialists in Linux and Free Software" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-5970074 Fax: +34-91-5970083 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/