misc/91606: sha1 /dev is suspended

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/91606; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Dominik Karczmarski <dominik at karczmarski.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/91606: sha1 /dev is suspended
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:44:31 -0500

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 On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:52:31PM +0000, Dominik Karczmarski wrote:
 >=20
 > >Number:         91606
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       sha1 /dev is suspended
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:       =20
 > >Keywords:      =20
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 10 18:00:20 GMT 2006
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Dominik Karczmarski
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.4
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD server1.loc 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #3: Mon Dec 12 01:50:=
 27 UTC
 > 2005     root at server1.loc:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SERVER0  i386        =
      =20
 >=20
 > >Description:
 > When I run (on FreeBSD 5.4)
 >  > sha1 /dev=20
 > or
 >  > md5 /dev
 >=20
 > checksum is NOT calculated and is suspended.
 > there is no problem on FreeBSD 4.X.
 
 What do you expect this to do?  There are no files in /dev suitable
 for checksumming.
 
 Kris
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