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regarding /usr/share/man/man5/magic.5.gz: Documentation of offset for regex in
magic(5) is incomplete
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: file
Version: 4.17-5
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man5/magic.5.gz
I'm trying to understand the meaning of the offset field for a regex
rule. magic(5) says:
"The regular expression is always tested against the first N lines,
where N is the given offset, thus it is only useful for (single-byte
encoded) text."
which suggests that when the offset is 0, it should never match. Or at
least, only in the first line. But instead, if I have a rule like this:
0 regex \\documentclass LaTeX 2e document text
then it matches an occurrence of \documentclass on line 11 of a test
file. As far as I can tell from looking at the source, 0 means "no
limit", although I don't know if libmagic imposes some arbitrary upper
limit on how much of the file is searched. The above paragraph should
be updated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libmagic1 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
libmagic1 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.24-1
Hi,
this bug has been fixed in file 4.24-1, thus closing. Thanks a lot to
Reuben Thomas for making this possible in upstream.
Regards,
Daniel
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