>Number:         17805
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /usr/bin/file loses on sparc64
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 02 00:19:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     grant beattie
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6_BETA5
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD death 1.6_BETA5 NetBSD 1.6_BETA5 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug  1 23:39:43 EST 2002 grant@mofo:/raid/netbsd/netbsd-1-6/20020729/sparc64/obj/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:
/usr/bin/file is broken on sparc64:

# file /netbsd
/netbsd: file: invalid type 0 in mconvert().

-current behaves the same way.
>How-To-Repeat:
run /usr/bin/file on sparc64.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: