On 25/06/18 04:25, Carlos Santos wrote: >> 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.
lol No I meant that scripts using -s on the newest systems, would fail if used on fedora 28, centos 7, ... Not a huge concern, but worth considering.
