Subject: Re: bin/36084: ambiguous file(1) "magic" mis-identifies files
To: None <pooka@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/27/2007 13:00:05
The following reply was made to PR bin/36084; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: christos@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/36084: ambiguous file(1) "magic" mis-identifies files
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:54:56 +0300
On Sun Mar 25 2007 at 16:20:00 +0000, timshel@shels.net wrote:
> # Palm OS .prc file types
> 60 string libr Palm OS dynamic library data
> >0 string >\0 "%s"
>
>
> The magic number is clearly not specific enough.
> The net affect of this problem for me is that I cannot use
> pkgsrc's subst.mk on the affected file without a very ugly
> workaround to this problem.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Run "make extract" in pkgsrc/net/proftpd (pkgsrc-2006Q4) and run
> "file work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/contrib/mod_wrap.c":
>
> me@myhost ttyp1 proftpd-1.3.1rc2]$ file contrib/mod_wrap.c
> contrib/mod_wrap.c: Palm OS dynamic library data "/*"
This is a problem for -current file-4.20 also.
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