[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#766214: Bug#766214: c_rehash - stable hash symlink output needed

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:12:22PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2014-10-21 17:03:30 [+0200], Vaclav Ovsik wrote:
> > an output of the utility c_rehash depends on the order the readdir
> > function returns filenames. The order can vary depending on dir-entry
> > order in the file-system. The different order can be annoying in the case of
> > version control of CA store (/etc/ssl/certs) or in the case of syncing nodes of
> > cluster.
> 
> Could you please clarify your needs / usecase in 
>   https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1123

I assume that it's about hash collisions.  Normally files and with
.0.  But on a hash collision it ends with .1 or .2.  And he wants
to make sure that the .0 always points to the same file by forcing
an order.


Kurt