Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:32:39 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/kscope/Makefile is not ASCII Message-ID: <42DC2E07.6407.F8F4CEA@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1121740037.11459.2.camel@realtime.exit.com> References: <42DC2B57.27763.F84D077@localhost>
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On 18 Jul 2005 at 19:27, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 22:21 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > [dan@nezlok:/usr] $ file ports/devel/kscope/Makefile
> > ports/devel/kscope/Makefile: Apple Old Partition data block size:
> > 21117 first type: HTML/en/${PORTNAME}, number of blocks: 1935896432,
> >
> > Several others have tested their ports tree and found similar
> > results. I've tried both the base system file and the one from
> > ports. Both give similar results.
> >
> > Any ideas why this file is so special?
>
> Well, checking /usr/share/misc/magic, a file that identifies as "Apple
> Old Partition" has a "TS" at offset 0x200. Considering that PORTSDIR
> occurs twice in the file, at a location that could well be offset 0x200,
> I would say that it's entirely coincidence.
>
> But maybe file(1) should try a little harder?
As a test, I put a space at the top of the Makefile:
$ file ports/devel/kscope/Makefile
ports/devel/kscope/Makefile: ASCII text
go figure....
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