Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael added:
>> Same concern here, for remote files.  For large remote files I would
>> prefer a cksum call, if possible.  But maybe we shall profile this, first.
>
> Of course we can't cksum the buffer without first encoding it.  Also,
> this would require a cksum on files.  Is there a reliably-available
> cksum operation we could run on files?

We don't have crc32 on lisp level (this is what the cksum program
uses). But there is md5, maybe it could be used instead. I'm not so
familiar with hash algorithms, so I don't know whether this is good
enough.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.