Re: [PATCH] md5sum, sha*sum: only escape file names containing newlines

[Eric Blake]

On 11/01/2013 10:29 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> This should be fully backwards and forwards compatible with previous
> escaping, since we'll never have a file name at the start of a line,
> thus '\' at the start of a line always means the file name is escaped.

This feels like it could be a step in the wrong direction to me.  I've
been arguing that we need to escape file names containing \r, for the
sake of people that transmit files with \r\n line endings compared to
files that contain a literal trailing \r.

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