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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 1998 02:50:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/6124: Getting md5 to reset access times. 
Message-ID:  <199803261050.CAA16795@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/6124; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: dwmalone@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6124: Getting md5 to reset access times. 
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:59:11 +0100

 >	If you are using md5 to checksum a load of files you probably
 >	don't want all the access times changed. This is a small patch
 >	which adds a "-r" flag which resets the access times to what
 >	they were before the file was checksumed.
 
 I disagree with this change, it doesn't belong in the md5 program.
 
 cksum(1) and sum(1) doesn't have it either.
 
 mtree(8) and tripwire may need this kind of stuff, but not md5(1).
 
 --
 Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
 phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
 "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"

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