Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:33:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs & problems in 2.0.5 Message-ID: <24918.805538039@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:04:23 %2B0200." <9507110904.AA21396@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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> * file don't know much about FreeBSD - see the next lines
>
> graichen@mordillo:~> bc
> bc 1.02 (Mar 3, 92) Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> ^\Quit (core dumped)
> graichen@mordillo:~> file bc.core
> bc.core: data
> graichen@mordillo:~> cat test.c
> void main(void){}
> graichen@mordillo:~> gcc -c test.c
> graichen@mordillo:~> file test.o
> test.o: NetBSD/i386 object file not stripped
I tried this and I have to agree that this looks rather embarassing,
espcially having our .o's identified as "NetBSD/i386 object files"; it
makes it look to the casual user like we're running their stuff in
some sort of emulation mode or something :-)
It would also be nice to have identification of core files. If you
look at the NetBSD/i386 core file entry, it even appears to ferret the
name of the executable out of the core file and display it. Nice!
I fooled around with od and /etc/magic a little bit but was unable to
get core recognition to work in the short 2 minutes I had to devote to
the problem.. :-)
Anyone out there game for a little puzzle? The mission: To see how
many types of files you can get recognised by /etc/magic! :-)
Jordan
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