On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:31:27AM -0400, Jamie Norwood wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:43:27AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> > That seems a little dangerous - perhaps some of the files will have
> > md5 appearing in other lines for other reasons, and that would mess
Read 'CHECKSUM' instead of 'md5' and your statement is correct.
> > up this simple grep. Perhaps a more complicated tag in the file would
> > be more appropriate.
>
> Not to mention that, AFAIK, once you add the checksum to the file, the
> checksum would be different because the file is no longer the same, ne?
> I am not aware of a way to include a checksum in the file being checked.
Ehm, the original poster did the grep -v thing to avoid this, and I'm
reasonably sure he also envisioned using a better tag than 'CHECKSUM' -
it's the principle that's worth implementing.
Anyway, I also haven't got any patches so I'll shut up now.
--Stijn
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