On Sep 21 21:31:00, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> On Sep 17 07:30:23, st...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote:
> > update to libmagic (file) 5.25
>
> What is the relation of OpenBSD's own new file(1) to devel/libmagic?
>
> The magic(5) file used by file(1) is version 4.24, while
> the magic(4) file that comes with libmagic is version 5.25.
> Can libmagic use the /etc/magic that comes with file(1)?
> It doesn't seem to be the case: the naive program below
> shows a bunch of errors when trying to magic_compile(),
> starting with
>
> /tmp/magfile, 627: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
> /tmp/magfile, 628: Warning: Current entry does not yet have
> a description for ad ding a MIME type
>
> Is this the discrepancy in the magic file format version?
> Does that mean that /etc/magic is only used/usable by file(1),
> but ports using libmagic (e.g. sox) can only use the magic file
> that comes with it, /usr/local/share/misc/magic.mgc ?
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
> #include <magic.h>
>
> int
> main()
> {
> magic_t cookie = NULL;
> cookie = magic_open(MAGIC_NONE);
> magic_compile(cookie, "/tmp/magfile");
(It's a copy of /etc/magic.)
> magic_close(cookie);
> return 0;
> }
