Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:17:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@marple.ctr.columbia.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/1881: file(1) misidentifies Sun3/m68k executables Message-ID: <199610242017.QAA05252@marple.ctr.columbia.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199610242020.NAA18821@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1881
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: file(1) misidentifies Sun3/m68k executables
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 24 13:20:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bill Paul
>Organization:
Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP i386
>Environment:
486/33 with 8MB RAM
110 MB IDE disk drive
Running NIS and NFS (client).
>Description:
file(1) thinks that SunOS 4.1.1/sun3/m68k executables are Xenix
8086 relocatable (Microsoft) object files. Even though there are
entries in /etc/magic to describe such files, file(1) seems to
ignore them.
Note that FreeBSD 2.1.0 seems to suffer from the same problem.
>How-To-Repeat:
Find a couple of Sun3/m86k executables and run file(1) on them:
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:marple.ctr.columbia.edu{97}% uname -sr
FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:marple.ctr.columbia.edu{98}% file ls
ls: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:marple.ctr.columbia.edu{99}% file du2-sun3
du2-sun3: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
A SPARC IPX running SunOS 4.1.3 identifies them correctly:
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:startide{313}% uname -sr
SunOS 4.1.3
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:startide{314}% file ls
ls: mc68020 pure dynamically linked executable
[/homes/wpaul/src/uha]:startide{315}% file du2-sun3
du2-sun3: mc68020 demand paged dynamically linked executable
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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