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Re: Bad bug in md5sum and cmp
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- Subject: Re: Bad bug in md5sum and cmp
- From: "W. Farlow" <wfarlow at mxcom dot com>
- Date: 12 Nov 1998 14:56:39 -0000
Have you tried these programs on a binary mounted filesystem? Or with CYGWIN=' binmode'?
Md5sum and cmp are badly broken. They stop reading the file at the
> first Ctrl-Z. This makes them useless on binary files.
> Cmp reports two files as equal if they differ behind the first Ctrl-Z.
> Md5sum (even when used with the -b flag) stops after the first Ctrl-Z,
> and when checking, reports the file as OK if changes occur only behind
> the first Ctrl-Z.
> These problems exist in B19 and B20.
> Funny: cksum was also broken in B19 but works as expected in B20!
>
> Ruediger Helsch <Ruediger.Helsch@vt.siemens.de>
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