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@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +$File: MAINT,v 1.10 2008/02/05 19:08:11 christos Exp $ + +Maintenance notes: + +I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help, +but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following: + +- Do not distribute changed versions. + +People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions +of the file command for anonymous FTP, and people all over the +world get copies of the hacked versions. Within a day or two I am +getting email from around the world asking me why "my" file command +won't compile!!! Needless to say this detracts from the limited +time I have available to work on the actual software. Therefore I +ask you again to please NOT distribute your changed version. If +you need to make changes, please add a patch file next to the +distribution tar, and a README file that clearly explains what you +are trying to fix. + +Thank you for your assistance and cooperation. + +Code Overview + +This is a rough idea of the control flow from the main program: + +file.c main() +file.c process (called for each file) + printf file name +magic.c magic_file() +fsmagic.c file_fsmagic() + (handles statbuf modes for DEV) + (handles statbuf modes for executable &c. + reads data from file. +funcs.c: file_buffer() +compress.c file_zmagic() +is_tar.c file_is_tar() +softmagic.c file_softmagic() + match() - looks for match against main magic database +ascmagic.c file_ascmagic() +readelf.c file_tryelf() + "unknown" + +Christos Zoulas (see README for email address) |