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What is File Protection and what is it used for?

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While packaging what does file protection mean?

When packaging an application, one has an option to include a list of files that needs file protection. File protection will run a checksum on each of the files listed, and store the results along with the package. When the vserver starts up, the protected files will be verified against the checksums to ensure the integrity of the files.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread - what type of checksum does the protect function use - crc, md5, sha1?
 
When packaging an application, one has an option to include a list of files that needs file protection. File protection will run a checksum on each of the files listed, and store the results along with the package. When the vserver starts up, the protected files will be verified against the checksums to ensure the integrity of the files.

Hi Bill,

Our development team reported that it's MD5.

Thanks,

Brett