> From: "Pádraig Brady" <[email protected]> > To: "DATACOM" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Coreutils" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 1:17:57 AM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: support -s option [...] > -s was removed a long time ago > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=FILEUTILS-3_12a-7-g7823351 > > One disadvantage of adding it back is that scripts written say on Fedora 29 > could then fail if ported elsewhere.
Considering that it was removed in 1995, "elsewhere" would mean an OS from 23 years ago. That's an unlikely situation unless you own a DMC-12 equipped with a flux capacitor. > Now we did recently add -w, so adding -s would make busybox > a strict subset of coreutils, which would be desirable. -- Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D “Marched towards the enemy, spear upright, armed with the certainty that only the ignorant can have.” — Epitaph of a volunteer
