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SubjectRe: Lockless file reading
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> It can happen. It happened to me with two gifs. FWIW.

Probability on the order of 2^-32 with MD5 any-pairs collision.
(It's not usual to have so many GIFs to compare, though :)
SHA is better, and both probably have some weakness that increases the
probability of collision.

Do you still have the GIFs?

-- Jamie
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