Comment 7 for bug 84467

tested on coreutils-7.0 beta (just-released development version) -- still present.

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According to John Blythe on 4/22/2008 12:27 PM:
| Hi, I have just noticed that checking md5 hashes in an correctly
| formated md5 file fails on linux if the file
| has crlf line terminators.

This has been previously reported (and even some tentative patches
provided), but not yet cleanly dealt with. A true fix would also have to
encode carriage returns as \r in the md5 output, so that files ending in
cr (on platforms that actually allow that) cannot be confused with a
change in line terminators.

It's been on my TODO list for a long time now, but never percolated to the
top.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake address@hidden
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