> A corrupt patch may be getting a nonsense patch-ID with the current > code and hopefully is not matching other patches that are not > corrupt, but with such a change, a corrupt patch may not be getting > any patch-ID and a loop that computes patch-ID for many files and > try to match them up might need to be rewritten to take the new > failure case into account. Are you talking about the loop in `get_one_patchid()`? And how should the failure case be handled? Should it give a warning or an error?