On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 03:17:58PM +1000, raf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 11:46:38AM +0300, Andrey Repin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Greetings, raf! > > Hi Andrey, > > > > The current version of file/libmagic on Cygwin is 5.46. > > > > > It crashes when trying to analyse the zipfile > > > [email protected] (a Firefox addon). > > > This is without decompressing the zipfile to allow > > > further analsis. > > > > $ file --version; file [email protected] > > file-5.46 > > magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic > > [email protected]: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to > > extract, compression method=deflate > > It's good that it doesn't affect everyone, but 5.47 has > been out for a few months, and 5.46 is a few years old. > So an updated package would help others regardless. > > > > It's here for reference (raf.org/tmp/[email protected]). > > > > > Strangely, 5.46 on macOS and Debian don't crash with this file. > > > It's just the 5.46 on Cygwin. > > > > Try the usual: > > > > 1. Shut down every cygwin process. > > 2. ps ax to verify. > > 3. Re-run cygwin setup. > > 4. Try rebase-trigger full if that didn't help. > > Thanks but that didn't fix it. > But it's OK. I've installed 5.47 from source and it's fine. > I'll remove it when the Cygwin package is updated to 5.47. > > > > I compiled 5.46 on Cygwin myself to see if it's something > > > wrong just with the Cygwin package of file-devel but that > > > crashed too. > > > > > 5.47 on all three systems doesn't crash, so that's good. > > > > > So, if anyone here has anything to do with packaging file-devel > > > for Cygwin, please update the package to 5.47. Thanks. > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Andrey Repin > > Sunday, May 24, 2026 11:45:06 > > > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > cheers, > raf file-5.48 has just been released. cheers, raf -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
