Hi
I've been looking into a problem that has surfaced on our systems, and
it turns out that the problem in in the gnu 'sum' utility as shipped
with RedHat 7.1.
I realise that they have annoyingly shipped an alpha version of
textutils, but as the problem will become official when this version
gets released, I felt I should point it out.
The problem is the addition of the line:
/* Reduce checksum mod 0xffff, to avoid overflow. */
checksum = (checksum & 0xffff) + (checksum >> 16);
Adding (checksum >> 16) makes the number returned for large files (e.g.
38MB) incompatible with earlier gnu sums and with system V sum that it
claims to be compatible with.
I can get around the problem for now by using an older version of sum,
but this problem will no doubt bite many people when it's released...
Regards
/nick
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