Subject: bug#34856: closed (Re: bug#34856: [PATCH] *sum --help: add note about binary/text mode)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:13:02 +0000

Your bug report

#34856: [PATCH] *sum --help: add note about binary/text mode

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#34856: [PATCH] *sum --help: add note about binary/text mode
From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
To: Kamil Dudka <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:11:59 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 3/14/19 1:48 PM, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> +Note: There is no difference between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.\

Thanks for the patch - I see this is a downstream patch in Fedora since
several years.

I changed the Subject line to conform to our 'commit-msg' hook:

  md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: --help: add note about binary/text mode

and pushed at:

  https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ae61b10663

Have a nice day,
Berny

Subject: [PATCH] *sum --help: add note about binary/text mode
From: Kamil Dudka <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:48:01 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* src/md5sum.c (usage): Make it clear that there is no difference
between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.

Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/406981
Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1688740
---
 src/md5sum.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/md5sum.c
index 3532f7b7a..f75b6de02 100644
--- a/src/md5sum.c
+++ b/src/md5sum.c
@@ -287,7 +287,10 @@ The following five options are useful only when verifying checksums:\n\
 The sums are computed as described in %s.  When checking, the input\n\
 should be a former output of this program.  The default mode is to print a\n\
 line with checksum, a space, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary,\
-\n' ' for text or where binary is insignificant), and name for each FILE.\n"),
+\n' ' for text or where binary is insignificant), and name for each FILE.\n\
+\n\
+Note: There is no difference between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.\
+\n"),
               DIGEST_REFERENCE);
       emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME);
     }
-- 
2.17.2