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