On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:37:08PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
The tech-ctte had ruled some time ago that md5sum from stdin should not
output a "-" [0]. It seems to be back to the old format:
$ md5sum </dev/null | cat -vet
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -$
It's that way in sarge also. I'm frankly going to ignore this unless the
tech ctte revisits it. AFAICT this was dealt with in the tech ctte because
it was a pet peeve of ian jackson. I find it vaguely disturbing that
there was an entire thread about changing the behavior of a program in
coreutils that *was never mentioned to the coreutils maintainer*. Since
nobody told me about this discussion, I'll assume I was meant to ignore
it. FWIW, both md5sums in sarge shipped with the "forbidden" behavior
and I see no compelling reason whatsoever to deviate from either our own
current output or every other distribution's (which is based on
coreutils' upstream behavior).
Mike Stone
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