Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/17/2011 07:50 AM, Rüdiger Meier wrote: >> Maybe you could start to correct it this way: >> >> 1. add option --textmode ... > > Rather, --text. But yes, we need this option, so that --binary can be
md5sum already has a --text option. > default (like it was meant to be). On systems where text and binary --binary is already the default where it makes a difference, unless reading from a terminal. > are identical (per POSIX), you want the default to be ' ', not '*'. That is already the case. > And on systems where they differ, the major use of summing is to > confirm binary compatibility, not text compatibility, so --text should > be an explicit option for O_TEXT and you should default to O_BINARY. > We shouldn't need a --binary, but must keep it for compatibility.
