[Toybox] patch: add built-in versions of sha-2 family hash functions

[enh]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:59 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 6/7/21 11:14 AM, enh wrote:
> > your non-POSIX cut(1) extension covers 80% of the in-the-wild use of awk
> anyway
> > :-) if you still talk to any of the busybox folks, we should suggest
> they copy
> > that --- it would be nice for it to be a de facto standard so we can get
> it into
> > POSIX sometime around the 2040s... (and have made lives better for the
> folks who
> > don't care about standards and just want to "get things done" in the
> intervening
> > decades!)
>
> So now that busybox has merged my patch:
>
>   https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0068ce2fa0e3
>
> Do we we poke coreutils or the austin group next? (Is there a plan _beyond_
> adding it to busybox?)
>

i'm assuming coreutils...


> Possibly we want to wait for a busybox release or two and _then_ poke
> coreutils
> when versions of busybox with cut -DF show up in Linux distros? (Depends
> how
> much resistance and bikeshedding we expect from a gnu project.)
>

...but, yeah, although i've no experience with coreutils myself i just
assumed that it would be an easier conversation after busybox is actually
there in all the distros for them to test against.


> Rob
>
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