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Document that we break ties in favor of smaller SD digest if there are still ties after comparing the published timestamp

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svn:r16432
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Peter Palfrader 2008-08-05 18:54:23 +00:00
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doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
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@ -1145,8 +1145,9 @@ $Id$
* Two router entries are "the same" if they have the same
<descriptor digest, published time, nickname, IP, ports> tuple.
We choose the tuple for a given router as whichever tuple appears
for that router in the most votes. We break ties in favor of
the more recently published.
for that router in the most votes. We break ties first in favor of
the more recently published, then in favor of smaller server
descriptor digest.
* The Named flag appears if it is included for this routerstatus by
_any_ authority, and if all authorities that list it list the same

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src/or/dirvote.c
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@ -337,7 +337,8 @@ _compare_vote_rs(const void **_a, const void **_b)
/** Given a list of vote_routerstatus_t, all for the same router identity,
* return whichever is most frequent, breaking ties in favor of more
* recently published vote_routerstatus_t.
* recently published vote_routerstatus_t and in case of ties there,
* in favour of smaller descriptor digest.
*/
static vote_routerstatus_t *
compute_routerstatus_consensus(smartlist_t *votes)
@ -346,6 +347,10 @@ compute_routerstatus_consensus(smartlist_t *votes)
int most_n = 0, cur_n = 0;
time_t most_published = 0;
/* _compare_vote_rs() sorts the items by identity digest (all the same),
* then by SD digest. That way, if we have a tie that the published_on
* date cannot tie, we use the descriptor with the smaller digest.
*/
smartlist_sort(votes, _compare_vote_rs);
SMARTLIST_FOREACH(votes, vote_routerstatus_t *, rs,
{