[Http-crcsync] General comments on crcsync document

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:11:53 am Toby Collett wrote:
> The current version in git now implements the standard document completely
> as far as I am aware (doc is available from git
> http://repo.or.cz/w/httpd-crcsyncproxy.git?a=tree;f=crccache/doc;h=37d90acd37bb0199a37e6d6a779c37c4f37da29b;hb=HEAD)
> 
> So now we need some testing, not sure the best way to do this, Martin, do
> you want to set up access to a server?
> 
> Rusty: There was an assertion that tailsize be < block-size in the crc code.
> The latest version has tail_size = blocksize + remainder. It seems to work
> when that assertion is removed and I couldnt see any reason why it can't be
> greater in the current implementation. Could you confirm?

There's no real reason, but it seems wrong.  if tailsize > blocksize, why
isn't there simply one more block?

Cheers,
Rusty (who hasn't really been paying any attention)