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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-10-31 02:10:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-10-31 02:10:18 +0000 |
| commit | e5947e883ec53b43220dcff9f1906ad80e35be82 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b8b8bf27a757ec7d52e23c7f97fdb5d52869656 /old | |
| parent | 679918ec8452641ef5a4b785e5f7f269d27d7990 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e5947e883ec53b43220dcff9f1906ad80e35be82.tar.xz | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | old/textutils/ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | old/textutils/NEWS | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/old/textutils/ChangeLog b/old/textutils/ChangeLog index 88c651125..e107708cc 100644 --- a/old/textutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/textutils/ChangeLog @@ -133,7 +133,12 @@ Thu Sep 26 21:02:54 1996 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov> * src/md5sum.c (usage): Remove references in --help output to the now-deprecated --string option. Support for it will be - removed soon. + removed soon. Using this option can provoke a memory access + violation on some systems because of (unavoidable in an efficient + implementation) alignment assumptions made by functions in md5.c. + md5sum.c could leave the option in and accomodate the alignment + restriction, but this option was intended solely for testing, and + the tests are now all file-oriented, so it's not necessary. * tests/md5sum-test/md5-rfc: Rewrite to avoid use of --string option. diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS index 5ba23255e..ef512c9f2 100644 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ b/old/textutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ Changes in release 1.20 Changes in test release 1.19p +* md5sum's --string option is being deprecated and is no longer documented. + It is still accepted, but will be removed altogether in 1.21. * tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' no longer fails when LC_CTYPE is set to iso_8859_1 on Solaris -- or any other character set with differing numbers of uppercase and lowercase characters |