Subject: Bad bug in md5sum and cmp
From: [email-masked] (Ruediger Helsch)

11 Nov 1998 21:49:21 -0800
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Md5sum and cmp are badly broken. They stop reading the file at the
first Ctrl-Z. This makes them useless on binary files.
Cmp reports two files as equal if they differ behind the first Ctrl-Z.
Md5sum (even when used with the -b flag) stops after the first Ctrl-Z,
and when checking, reports the file as OK if changes occur only behind
the first Ctrl-Z.
These problems exist in B19 and B20.
Funny: cksum was also broken in B19 but works as expected in B20!

Ruediger Helsch <[email-masked]>
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