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According to James Strother on 12/18/2008 10:58 PM:
Hello James,
>
> But, it seems to me that md5sum should have recognized that the input file
> had
> an invalid format and printed out an error message.
Thanks for the report.
> The version is 5.97 and was encountered on Ubuntu 7.10.
There have been some improvements to md5sum in the meantime; you merely
need to upgrade. From the NEWS file:
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.11 (2008-04-19) [stable]
md5sum would segfault for invalid BSD-style input, e.g.,
echo 'MD5 (' | md5sum -c - Now, md5sum ignores that line.
sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [email protected]
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