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Annotation of src/usr.bin/file/MAINT, Revision 1.5

1.5     ! chl         1: $OpenBSD: MAINT,v 1.4 2008/05/08 01:40:56 chl Exp $
1.1       deraadt     2:
                      3: Maintenance notes:
                      4:
                      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:
                      7:
                      8: - Do not distribute changed versions.
                      9:
                     10: People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions
1.3       ian        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
                     19: are trying to fix.
1.1       deraadt    20:
1.3       ian        21: Thank you for your assistance and cooperation.
                     22:
                     23: Code Overview
1.1       deraadt    24:
1.3       ian        25: This is a rough idea of the control flow from the main program:
                     26:
                     27: file.c main()
                     28: file.c process (called for each file)
                     29:                printf file name
                     30: magic.c                magic_file()
                     31: fsmagic.c              file_fsmagic()
                     32:                                (handles statbuf modes for DEV)
                     33:                        (handles statbuf modes for executable &c.
                     34:                        reads data from file.
                     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()
1.4       chl        41: readelf.c              file_tryelf()
1.3       ian        42:                                "unknown"
1.1       deraadt    43:
1.5     ! chl        44: Christos Zoulas (see README for email address)