Bug#215489: md5sum does not support large files

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Dave Cinege <dcinege-dated-1066447726.051ee3@psychosis.com> writes:

> 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.  : )

Sure. Its just ment as workaround till its fixed.

MfG
        Goswin