On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:34:47PM -0400, Ross Singer wrote: > On May 23, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: > > > Don't know what to say. Crawling through the source for "file" at [1], the > > pattern matching code as in place as of Sept 2011. It could be present > > earlier than Sept 2011, but I stopped hunting for it. The earliest it > > would have made its way into the magic db would have been April 2011. > > > > Perhaps OpenBSD is using some custom branch of "file", haven't updated the > > db, etc. > > As Stuart pointed out, some implementations are slow to update the db. OSX, > for example, also just says "data" (hence my question on the output).
adding FreeBSD's magicfile from this commit on a users $HOME http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-vendor/2011-October/000851.html For my next trick I will try to remember that I need to do that. ./fxk -- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
