On Mar 31, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Using magic bytes would even result in wrong results in some cases. For
> example for scapy, the distfile is intentionally a polyglot. It is both
> a valid shell script and a zip file:
> 
> $ file -b /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/scapy/scapy-2.3.1.zip
> POSIX shell script executable (binary data)

Interesting, I did not know that kind of thing existed / was possible.

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