On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:36:37PM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Why is it "randomized" anyhow? Just numbering shares from 1 would produce
> more reproducible results, thus making it more likely that problems
> specific to a certain use case would get noticed before it's too late.
> It probably would be easier to use for some purposes, too, if file names
> were easier to predict.

Randomised so that you can easily strip the numbers and place them
elsewhere and thereby make it harder to guess the share numbers.

> BTW, the command line parser is pretty much completely broken if you judge
> it by the error messages it produces even for completely valid values as
> per its own help output. In case you want to fix that, too ...

Back then I wasn't very good at cmdline parsers.  Patch welcome.

D.

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