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Bug#215489: md5sum does not support large files



On Sunday 12 October 2003 23:23, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> > # md5sum *
> > 2.1GBFile: Success
> > 2bb0999b1568172b0c74f2349a8f57e0  1.3GBFile
>
> I was wondering about that. Works fine if you pipe it, i.e. "md5sum
> <file".

That's because the shell is calling open() and read(),  not md5sum. 
So it's still broken even though you can't tell.  : )





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