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
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
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