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# 1  
Old 09-04-2007
Cksum dependencies
Hi,

On what factors does the cksum depend.

If i build 2 machines exactly the same, then can i get the checksum of 2 compiled files same.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 09-05-2007
The cksum utility prints the CRC algorithm specified by the POSIX standard.
# 3  
Old 09-05-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vibhor_agarwali
Hi,

On what factors does the cksum depend.

If i build 2 machines exactly the same, then can i get the checksum of 2 compiled files same.

Thanks
Not if things like
Code:
char built_on[]=__DATE__;

are in the source.
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Old 09-05-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ygor
The cksum utility prints the CRC algorithm specified by the POSIX standard.
Not much conversant with this.

On which factors does this depend.

We don't have anything that depends on time.
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