[patch] no output when executing md5sum in back quotes

[Daniel Farrugia]

* Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> [2007-05-17 00:26:52 +0200]:
> 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?

Hello Denis,

I was in fact statically linking against glibc using the tool chain that
comes with Debian Sarge. I re-compiled with the uClibc tool chain and
the problem went away. Sorry for the noise.

Daniel