Re: Lockless file reading

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa]

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.
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