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[PATCH] Allow --zero with --check

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From: Ricardo Branco <rbranco <at> suse.de>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 69368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69368: [PATCH] Allow --zero with --check
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:13:17 +0100

On 2/25/24 12:06, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> By adding this support we diverge the checksum file formats supported 
> by check.
> I.e. users may inadvertently create such files that are not usable
> by any previous version of the checksum utilities.

Any user of the --zero flag has already created completely unusable 
check files.

This patch makes them usable.

> Also having --check support NUL delimited files
> doesn't add any additional functionality, as the checksum files
> are already automatically escaped appropriately.

The --zero flag disables file name escaping.

> Also NUL delimited checksum files can be harder to manage with other 
> text tools.

Only text tools that don't have zero flags unlike the ones you mention here:

> --zero was added for the case of piping to other tools
> that would find the filename escaping problematic.


Best,

R

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