[BusyBox] sha1sum/md5sum

[Glenn McGrath]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:47:46 +0100
Steven Scholz <steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de> wrote:

> 1.) Apparently coreutils/md5sum.c is no longer used. We should removed
> it then from the CVS!?

True, will remove it soon.

> 2.) Why were the options -b, -t, -g dropped?

To enable a common interface betweeen sha1sum and md5sum,

All -b did was put a '*' indicator beside the filename, -b or -t doesnt
change the hash value, so i dotn see what use this indicator is.

-g, the --string option isnt mentioned in GNU md5sum's man page, i
suspect they intend to drop the option as well, the same behaviour could
be achieved by reading the string from stdin i assume.

> 3.) If "the -s option is meaningful only when verifying checksums"
> then we don't need to enable it when CONFIG_FEATURE_MD5_SHA1_SUM_CHECK
> is disabled! Do we?

Good point.


Glenn