Hi!
I just ran into a problem checking an md5 file with \r\n line endings.
md5sum checks for \n line endings but not \r\n so, where an \r\n is
present, tries to fopen the correct filename with a \r appended. Here's
a simple patch to fix the problem.
Cheers,
Dave
--- coreutils-5.3.0/src/md5sum.c 2004-09-20 08:40:39.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-updated/src/md5sum.c 2005-03-23 16:48:16.000000000 +0000
@@ -433,7 +433,17 @@
/* Remove any trailing newline. */
if (line[line_length - 1] == '\n')
- line[--line_length] = '\0';
+ {
+ if (line[line_length - 2] == '\r')
+ {
+ line[--line_length] = '\0';
+ line[--line_length] = '\0';
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ line[--line_length] = '\0';
+ }
+ }
if (! (split_3 (line, line_length, &hex_digest, &binary, &filename)
&& hex_digits (hex_digest)))