Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 3/25/2009 3:57 PM:
>>> and the extra * breaks the check. I'd really like to switch md5sum and
>>> friends to match Linux output when O_BINARY, and add a different marker
>>> character (but what?) when summing a file in O_TEXT mode, since generally
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According to Jim Meyering on 3/25/2009 3:57 PM:
>> and the extra * breaks the check. I'd really like to switch md5sum and
>> friends to match Linux output when O_BINARY, and add a different marker
>> character (but what?) when summing a file in O_TEXT
Eric Blake wrote:
> I really hate the fact that md5sum and friends output * for binary files,
> and blank for text files, when used on cygwin or other platforms where
> O_TEXT matters. This poor choice of defaults makes 'make
> sc_immutable_NEWS' fail, because md5sum outputs:
>
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I really hate the fact that md5sum and friends output * for binary files,
and blank for text files, when used on cygwin or other platforms where
O_TEXT matters. This poor choice of defaults makes 'make
sc_immutable_NEWS' fail, because md5sum outputs: