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cksum: can't handle non-UTF-8 filenames #6574

@BenWiederhake

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@BenWiederhake

On linux (and some other platforms), filenames aren't necessarily valid UTF-8. We shouldn't claim that the argument is invalid in those cases:

$ touch $'funky\xffname'
$ cksum $'funky\xffname'
4294967295 0 funky�name
$ cargo run -q cksum $'funky\xffname'
error: invalid UTF-8 was detected in one or more arguments

Usage: target/debug/coreutils cksum [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

For more information, try '--help'.
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