bug#24795: sha1sum cannot find file to check

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/10/16 09:30, Francesco Turco wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 19:52 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> This seems like the txt file is in DOS format with \r\n line endings.
>> If you remove the --ignore-missing option, are you presented with
>> $'\r' representations in the missing file names?
>> Though when I downloaded the file it was in unix format so I'm
>> confused
> 
> If I remove the --ignore-missing option no \r characters appear in the
> output, so the checksum file uses Unix line endings.
> 
> If I convert the checksum file to DOS line endings with unix2dos I can
> see \r line endings in the output.
> 
> There is another difference by using --ignore-missing: when using DOS
> line endings sha1sum immediately says "no file was verified", without
> checking anything; when using Unix line endings it says the same thing
> but after a few seconds, so it must have checked something behind the
> scenes.

Ouch that is a bug, triggered when --ignore-missing is used
with checksums that start with 00....
The attached should fix it up.

thanks,
Pádraig

md5sum--ignore-missing-00.patch
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