Re: MD5SUM: False Negative

[Matthew Woehlke]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Gary Bartlett on 10/19/2006 5:14 PM:
> > It appears that MD5SUM incorrectly lists some checks as FAILED when it
> > should PASS, e.g. using the 32-bit TortoiseSVN distribution at
> > http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads:
>
> Are you sure it's not a text vs. binary problem?  Does 'md5sum --binary'
> or 'md5sum --text' help?
>
> > C:\>md5sum --version
> >
> > md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97
>
> The latest stable version of coreutils is 6.3; you may want to consider
> upgrading.

If that was the case, wouldn't the md5 sums be different (case aside)? I 
do wonder if there is something funny with the line endings on the .md5 
file :-), but I can't tell if that's cygwin coreutils or mingw coreutils 
(or something else?); all I would have to test is cygwin (and various 
UNIX's of course).

FWIW though, I can't reproduce it if it is strictly a case (of the hash) 
issue. I tried making my .md5 DOS-format, but then it choked on the file 
name with 'no such file' (but I was also testing on UNIX, so...).

--
Matthew
When on POSIX, do as POSIX mandates.