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!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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