David.Comay at sun.com wrote: > [ adding Darren directly to the thread ] > >>> wes-3 "sha1sum", "sha224sum", "sha256sum", "sha384sum" and >>> "sha512sum" >>> are listed as conflicting commands but as far as I can tell >>> aren't delivered into /usr/bin on solaris. >> >> Darren Moffat asked to reserve /usr/bin/sha*sum for future work in the >> Security Community. As a result, these conflict with "existing or >> anticipated components" (2007/047, 2.4), and remain only in /usr/gnu. > > I'm a little bit uncomfortable about reserving this command namespace > in the absence of a concrete proposal from the Security Community. Or > has there been such a proposal yet? If not, is it expected to be a > straightforward wrapper around digest(1) or is there something else > intended here?
PSARC/2005/530 digest(1) md5/md5sum compatibility Basically sets this up already. -- Darren J Moffat
