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$File: MAINT,v 1.10 2008/02/05 19:08:11 christos Exp $
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Maintenance notes:
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I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help,
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but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following:
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- Do not distribute changed versions.
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People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions
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of the file command for anonymous FTP, and people all over the
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world get copies of the hacked versions. Within a day or two I am
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getting email from around the world asking me why "my" file command
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won't compile!!! Needless to say this detracts from the limited
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time I have available to work on the actual software. Therefore I
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ask you again to please NOT distribute your changed version. If
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you need to make changes, please add a patch file next to the
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distribution tar, and a README file that clearly explains what you
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are trying to fix.
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Thank you for your assistance and cooperation.
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Code Overview
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This is a rough idea of the control flow from the main program:
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file.c main()
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file.c process (called for each file)
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printf file name
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magic.c magic_file()
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fsmagic.c file_fsmagic()
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(handles statbuf modes for DEV)
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(handles statbuf modes for executable &c.
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reads data from file.
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funcs.c: file_buffer()
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compress.c file_zmagic()
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is_tar.c file_is_tar()
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softmagic.c file_softmagic()
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match() - looks for match against main magic database
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ascmagic.c file_ascmagic()
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readelf.c file_tryelf()
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"unknown"
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Christos Zoulas (see README for email address)
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