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Re: [PATCH] Support generic BSD message digest formats in md5sum.c (sha1
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Support generic BSD message digest formats in md5sum.c (sha1sum now --check's BSD SHA1 format) |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:57:31 +0200 |
Lawrence Teo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's a patch against 5.0.1 to allow md5sum.c to support generic BSD
> message digest formats. Version 5.0.1 already has support for BSD MD5
> format; this patch modifies the code so that `sha1sum --check' will
> also work with BSD-style SHA1 checksum files.
...
> 2003-08-22 Lawrence Teo <address@hidden>
>
> * src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept the BSD format for generic
> message digest modes. Currently works with BSD's MD5 and SHA1
> formats since these are the two algorithms presently used in
> coreutils. Updated comments to reflect this change.
> (bsd_split_3): Updated comments.
>
> * tests/md5sum/basic-1: New test to make sure that
> `md5sum --check' doesn't accept the BSD SHA1 format (adapted
> from `check-bsd' test in tests/sha1sum/basic-1).
>
> * tests/sha1sum/basic-1: New tests for --check exit status
> and allow BSD SHA1 format (adapted from tests in
> tests/md5sum/basic-1).
Thank you for those patches.
I've applied them, with some minor changes.