Re: syncing md5 against glibc

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The glibc maintainers didn't accept this patch, see:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1439

I can understand why Ulrich would not want such a patch.
It's probably hard to justify risking glibc stability for a relatively
large change that merely makes working code a little more maintainable
and portable to non-gcc compilers.

> Ok to install the following?  The glibc bug is linked in
> config/srclist.txt for future archeological expeditions.

Fine with me.
I'll be happy to use it in coreutils, once I've made a stable release.