[patch] no output when executing md5sum in back quotes

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:25, Daniel Farrugia wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> The md5sum applet included with busybox 1.5.0 seems to have a problem
> when executed inside back quotes. Running the applet directly from the
> shell works fine however when back quotes are used there is no output:
> 
> % busybox md5sum busybox            [works]
> % echo `busybox md5sum busybox`     [no ouput]
> 
> It seems that the applet doesn't flush stdout before exiting. The
> trivial patch included below fixed this problem for me.

Are you using CONFIG_STATIC=y and glibc?
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vda