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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/6124: Getting md5 to reset access times. 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6124; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/6124: Getting md5 to reset access times. 
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:51:33 +0000

 > >	If you are using md5 to checksum a load of files you probably
 > >	don't want all the access times changed. This is a small patch
 > >	which adds a "-r" flag which resets the access times to what
 > >	they were before the file was checksumed.
 > 
 > I disagree with this change, it doesn't belong in the md5 program.
 
 Fair enough.
 
 > cksum(1) and sum(1) doesn't have it either.
 > 
 > mtree(8) and tripwire may need this kind of stuff, but not md5(1).
 
 Would you be interested in a similar addition to mtree?
 
 	David.

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