From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A9571F2.4751730C@motorola.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:09:22 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hawkins MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: do md5sums differ across architectures? References: <200102221857.f1MIvW706290@ashley.ivey.uwo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Kevin, Don't know what is going on with your md5sum, but I ran it on a LinuxPPC 2.2.17 System and a SunOS 5.6, and got the same results ?????? The version of md5sum on Linux was 1.22, and the version on Sun was 2.0. Jeff ,"Kevin B. Hendricks" wrote: > > Hi, > > Just to have a bit of fun, how about this (3 different systems) > Each generates a different md5sum but all generate the same cksum! > (and adding -b to md5sum makes no difference) > > Darwin khendricksmac 1.2 Darwin Kernel Version 1.2: Wed Aug 30 23:32:53 PDT 2000; root:xnu/xnu-103.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc > > [khendricksmac:~] kbhend% md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > 9c6a44ad66572c834e282eb1ec665374 oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > [khendricksmac:~] kbhend% cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > 2458761606 56057947 oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > > SunOS crunch 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 > > kbhend$ md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > 278c21a764126027cba9cb685b7e96cf oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > kbhend$ cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > 2458761606 56057947 oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > > Linux localhost 2.2.17pre10-ben2 #3 Sun Aug 13 13:03:45 EDT 2000 ppc unknown > > [kbhend@localhost /src2]$ md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > c4a5d7bda6973f6b56e725295d1b3dfb oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > [kbhend@localhost /src2]$ cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > 2458761606 56057947 oo619b_src.tar.bz2 > > I guess md5sum is not a very reliable or consistent checksum measure for moving > files between ppc linux, MacOSX, and Solaris 7 Sparc. > > Back to the old cksum for me. > > Kevin > -- ************************************************ Jeffrey Hawkins Senior Staff Software Engineer Motorola Wireless Data Solutions Engineering Address: DEPT: DQ525 MS: IL-02-1055A .-. 1301 East Algonquin Road /v\ Schaumburg, IL 60196 // \\ /( )\ Phone: (847)576-7463 ^^ ^^ FAX: (847)576-7737 ************************************************ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/