Re: md5sum coreutils 5.2.1-2 buffer_read(fd): Segmentation fault

[J. Grant]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply.

> That does look like a problem.  Thanks for reporting it.  The dvd was
> mounted as a filesystem at this time?  Looks like it.

Yep. I have to use md5s to check if my DVD-R burned ok (as I've yet to
find any automatic way of verifying a burn with the writing software..)

> > I tried to run it through gdb and catch some call stack or something, but it
> > got stuck and never completed:
>
> Oh very good.  Thanks for trying that.  Another thing to try is to run
> strace on the binary.
>
>   strace -o /tmp/strace.out md5sum -c md5s.txt

Ok, the debian one got stuck in read(). I seem to have lost the DVD-R,
so I cannot check the GNU md5sum binary, I will see what happens after
my next duff DVD-R :(

> Try the coreutils one and see if it works for you or not.
>
> Future versions of md5sum in Debian will very likely be the coreutils
> one and not the dpkg one.  However there is some friction between the
> package maintainers about how this transition should occur.
> Bug#313258 in the Debian BTS has some interesting discussion on this.

Ah, interesting discussion there. Hope it will be in the next stable
release at somepoint, i'll use md5sum.textutils for the moment, thanks
for letting me know about that one.

Btw, I wonder if "-b, --binary read files in binary mode (default on
DOS/Windows)" is meant to have the DOS info on my debian GNU/Linux build?

Kind regards
JG