From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 11:26:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D5737B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2GJQN114991; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:26:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Pentchev Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: add MD5Chunk(filename, .., offset, length) to libmd In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:08:33 +0200." <20010316210833.C8245@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:26:23 +0100 Message-ID: <14989.984770783@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010316210833.C8245@ringworld.oblivion.bg>, Peter Pentchev writes: >Hi, > >(I wonder if I'm starting another bikeshed, but oh well ;) > >As phk pointed out in the SITE MD5 thread, it is sometimes useful >to compute the MD5 hash over a range of a file. I agree this is trivial >to implement, but why not have it in our standard toolbox? If you include manpage patches I'll commit it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message