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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:16:07 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with md5 -p
Message-ID:  <3B362E67.5BFC9AF2@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <3B35F852.2290E18F@math.missouri.edu> <20010624194339.A717@iv.nn.kiev.ua>

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OK, I'm going to make this into a PR so that it gets fixed soon.  (The
problem in stable appeared between May 19 and June 16.)

Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> 
>  Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:25:22, stephen (Stephen Montgomery-Smith) wrote about "Problems with md5 -p":
> 
> I reproduce it stably on my -current. The second checksum is constant
> and it is MD5 checksum of an empty stream:
> 
> root@iv:/usr/HEAD/src/sbin/md5##md5 </dev/null
> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
> 
> A fix:
> 
> --- md5.c.orig  Mon Jun  4 00:38:02 2001
> +++ md5.c       Sun Jun 24 19:37:13 2001
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
>                 switch (ch) {
>                 case 'p':
>                         MDFilter(1);
> -                       break;
> +                       exit(0);
>                 case 'q':
>                         qflag = 1;
>                         break;
> 
> This avoids determination of other options, but this does not conflict
> directly with man page.
> 
> Moreover such exit(0) should be applied not only with -p, but also with
> -x, -t and -s: all these options should not gather any input files.
> Patch is trivial.
> 
> > Suppose I have a file xxx.  If I type
> >
> > md5 -p < xxx
> >
> > it should return the contents of the file followed by its md5 number:
> >
> > Some junk in the file
> >
> > 334911f8bcde69fe8edac561197e876f
> >
> > But now I get two numbers:
> >
> > Some junk in the file
> >
> > 334911f8bcde69fe8edac561197e876f
> > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
> >
> > This is using FreeBSD stable of June 16.  (Maybe this has been fixed
> 
> > more recently - please tell me of it has.  It is a bit tricky for me to
> > update sources because I use CTM which has been out recently - probably
> > for just this very reason.  But if I know the problem has been fixed
> > then I will go through the effort of using cvsup.)
> 
> /netch

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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