RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system

[Colin Percival]

Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/46546E16.9070707 at freebsd.org> you write:
>> FreeBSD architects and file(1) maintainer,
>> 3. Due to its nature as a program which parses multiple data formats, it
>> poses an unusually high risk of having security problems in the future
>> (cf. ethereal/wireshark).
> 
> And this doesn't apply to, say, awk(1)?

Eh?  Unless I'm seriously confused, awk doesn't parse any data formats...

Colin Percival