I've been running this rule sporadically, but it should be part of the pre-release process, so ...
If anyone knows of a more up-to-date list of file system magic numbers, please let us know. >From 6e3299fcdb783b19552dbb2ceb0d012ce51a3501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:13:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS magic * README-release: Run the Makefile rule that checks for new file system magic numbers. --- README-release | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/README-release b/README-release index af2610a..e76adb7 100644 --- a/README-release +++ b/README-release @@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release. FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages? +* Check for new file system types by running the following command on + a system with the most recent kernel possible (e.g., Fedora rawhide): + + make -C src fs-magic-compare + + If it finds a new file system magic number, add it to src/stat.c. + If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created + in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's + fremote function. + * Pre-release testing: Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and -- 1.7.8.385.g1d1cb
