* Eric Blake ([email protected]) [20101215 18:15]: > This issue has come up in the past.
I though so :) > To make it work, we'd need an escape sequence \r (we already have escape > sequences for \n and \\) to uniquely identify whether a trailing carriage > return is part of the filename or part of the line ending, Which would be rather easy to do, > as well as a way to tell whether md5sum is parsing a file generated by the > new version that knows how to generate \r escapes or the old version that > blindly output literal \r. Which wouldn't be so easy AFAIS. > (using d2u on the checksum file before handing it to md5sum is usually a > decent workaround to having to teach md5sum about alternate line endings). That's what the person who asked is doing atm. Philipp
