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Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives s
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output |
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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:52:49 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Update of bug #19363 (project coreutils):
>
> Status: None => Invalid
> Open/Closed: Open => Closed
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Follow-up Comment #2:
>
> Closing. The leading \ is indeed a feature, and has been documented in
> coreutils md5sum and sha*sum for years when \\ or \n appear in a filename
> (although I would like to see \r added to this list). There is no more
> elegant solution for handling arbitrary file names, and it is a security hole
> if you can't handle arbitrary file names.
Thanks for handling that.
I suppose the addition of \r-handling would be useful for Cygwin.
On other types of systems, file names containing \r are sufficiently
rare that the impact would be negligible.
Do you want to add the feature?
- [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Armijn Hemel, 2007/03/20
- [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Armijn Hemel, 2007/03/20
- [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Eric Blake, 2007/03/20
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Andreas Schwab, 2007/03/21
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Eric Blake, 2007/03/21
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/21
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Eric Blake, 2007/03/22
- Re: [bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/22