Why does this command prepend useless redundant information? $ openssl md5 <(echo foo) MD5(/dev/fd/63)= d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
^ ^ I just cannot fathom why this was done. This is just all around terrible design. Not only is this information redundant and entirely worthless but it is likely to change across versions (as I have found out). In older versions of openssl (AFAICT) the behavior when reading from stdin is to put the md5 sum to stdout without any garbage: $ openssl md5 < foo 4d04cdc45787fd56cdda95fdcac9ae33 on newer versions we have: $ openssl md5 < bar (stdin)= 3d5e7d620c4f7e059ee18829968b45d4 You have successfully made portability and compatibility a nightmare. What makes it even better is the output doesn't even match the regular file case. Compare: $ openssl md5 < bar (stdin)= 3d5e7d620c4f7e059ee18829968b45d4 with $ openssl md5 <(echo foo) MD5(/dev/fd/63)= d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00 Thank you *so* much. I would have framed this email more politely but you have successfully punted compatibility detection onto third party developers. There is no way for you to fix it. -- - Patrick Donnelly ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
