From: Ricardo Branco <rbranco@suse.de>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>, 69368@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69368: [PATCH] Allow --zero with --check
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:13:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b40fd0ae-0a08-4748-9bef-8b98e70284c7@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a23db51-3258-f2de-6556-f680c480b001@draigBrady.com>
On 2/25/24 12:06, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> By adding this support we diverge the checksum file formats supported
> by check.
> I.e. users may inadvertently create such files that are not usable
> by any previous version of the checksum utilities.
Any user of the --zero flag has already created completely unusable
check files.
This patch makes them usable.
> Also having --check support NUL delimited files
> doesn't add any additional functionality, as the checksum files
> are already automatically escaped appropriately.
The --zero flag disables file name escaping.
> Also NUL delimited checksum files can be harder to manage with other
> text tools.
Only text tools that don't have zero flags unlike the ones you mention here:
> --zero was added for the case of piping to other tools
> that would find the filename escaping problematic.
Best,
R
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-25 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-24 19:07 bug#69368: [PATCH] Allow --zero with --check Ricardo Branco
2024-02-25 10:29 ` bug#69368: [PATCH]: md5sum: " Ricardo Branco
2024-02-25 11:06 ` bug#69368: [PATCH] " Pádraig Brady
2024-02-25 11:13 ` Ricardo Branco [this message]
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