Re: [PATCH] cksum: add --raw option to output a binary digest

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/02/2023 05:46, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I noticed a sporadic test failure when the bsd checksum happened to
> have one or more leading zeros.
> Compare these:
>
>    $ src/cksum --raw --algorithm=bsd <<< 2|od --endian=big -An -w1024
> -tu2|tr -d ' '
>    35
>    $ src/cksum --untagged --algorithm=bsd <<< 2
>    00035     1
>
> At first I thought I'd strip the excess zeros before comparing,
> but thought it slightly better to zero-pad any too-narrow value.
>
> The attached seems to do the job:

Oh nice one.
Merged that into the change and pushed.

thanks!
Pádraig