Subject: Re: bug#11559: cksum needs to be line buffered on lines of md5sum

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 02:54:07 +0100

On 05/26/2012 11:21 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 05/25/2012 08:23 PM, Anoop Sharma wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> md5sum was made line buffered sometime back. However, cksum was left out of
>> that patch.
>>
>> I tried running the following test on my machine for cksum, on the lines of
>> test for md5sum, given in bug archives at:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-10/msg00190.html. The
>> test failed.
>>
>> Shouldn't cksum too be made line buffered?
>>
>>
>> anoop@Aspire:~$ find / -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs -P2 -n 50 cksum
>> 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/^[0-9]\{1,\} [0-9]\{1,\}/!p'
>> decs/snd-soc-da7210.ko
>> 24-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcm3724.ko
>> /modules/3.2.0-24-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmad.ko
>> a/video/gspca/gspca_spca1528.ko
>> el/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/c6xdigio.ko
>> /dvb-usb-gl861.ko
>> nel/drivers/media/common/tuners/tda18271.ko
>> vers/media/rc/ite-cir.ko
>> ^C
>> anoop@Aspire:~$ ^C
> 
> oops.
> I'll fix that up.

Fixed with:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=2ab72e3a

cheers,
Pádraig.