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and subject line Re: Bug#466032: file: Fixed in CVS (hence, in 5.05)
has caused the Debian Bug report #466032,
regarding file: handle length-prefixed strings with non-byte length
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Package: file
Version: 4.23-2
Severity: normal
The magic format does not seem to include any way to handle
length-prefixed strings with a non-byte length. I want to handle a
file format which prefixes strings with their 32-bit length, but I see
no way to do this with the current magic format as specified in magic(5).
Ideally, I'd like some way to tell a pstring where to get its length
from, using a syntax like that of computed offsets. For instance:
....
>>>>&4 pstring(&0.L) \b, name "%s"
Alternatively, introducing new types like pstring which use 16-bit and
32-bit lengths would work, but that would require specifying all the
details of length endianness in the name of the type, and the magic
format already includes a perfectly good syntax for that.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libmagic1 4.23-2 File type determination library us
file recommends no packages.
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Reuben Thomas wrote...
> Now that file >5.05 is released in Debian, you can just close the bug;
Thanks for clarification, closing.
Christoph
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