Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of bug #19363 (project coreutils): > > Status: None => Invalid > Open/Closed: Open => Closed > > _______________________________________________________ > > Follow-up Comment #2: > > Closing. The leading \ is indeed a feature, and has been documented in > coreutils md5sum and sha*sum for years when \\ or \n appear in a filename > (although I would like to see \r added to this list). There is no more > elegant solution for handling arbitrary file names, and it is a security hole > if you can't handle arbitrary file names.
Thanks for handling that. I suppose the addition of \r-handling would be useful for Cygwin. On other types of systems, file names containing \r are sufficiently rare that the impact would be negligible. Do you want to add the feature? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
