md5sum and binary vs. text

[Eric Blake]

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I really hate the fact that md5sum and friends output * for binary files,
and blank for text files, when used on cygwin or other platforms where
O_TEXT matters.  This poor choice of defaults makes 'make
sc_immutable_NEWS' fail, because md5sum outputs:

fa6cba1740b3f385520c1b54d90859ca *-

and the extra * breaks the check.  I'd really like to switch md5sum and
friends to match Linux output when O_BINARY, and add a different marker
character (but what?) when summing a file in O_TEXT mode, since generally
you WANT binary mode to be the default.  Thoughts?

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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