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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2011-09-16 11:47:35 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2011-09-16 19:09:26 +0100
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md5sum: handle BSD reversed format checksums
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Detect and handle BSD reversed format checksums. * tests/misc/md5sum-bsd: Add a new test. * tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test. * NEWS: Mention the improvement Suggested by Rimas Kudelis.
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* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Improvements
+
+ md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool.
+ This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
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* Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]