Re: md5sum and binary vs. text

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
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 >

Re: md5sum and binary vs. text

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: md5sum and binary vs. text

2009-03-25 Thread Jim Meyering
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: > > fa6cba1740b3f3855

md5sum and binary vs. text

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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: