bin/99693: [patch] add magic(5)/file(1) support for FreeBSD 6.1 dump(8) format

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/99693; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: pri vate <nobody at nowh.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/99693: [patch] add magic(5)/file(1) support for FreeBSD 6.1 dump(8) format
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:34:26 -0400

 On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:35:27PM +0000, pri vate wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         99693
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       [patch] add magic(5)/file(1) support for FreeBSD 6.1 dump(8) format
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 01 16:40:18 GMT 2006
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     pri vate
 > >Release:        RELENG_6_1_0_RELEASE
 > >Organization:
 > yes it's me
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > file(1) does not grok 6.1's new dump format (ufs2).
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > the fix is ugly because it does not support the 64 bit date stamps, but here it goes anyway:
 
 This should probably be submitted to the file maintainers since that
 utility is not separately maintained by FreeBSD (and perhaps
 "de-uglified" first).
 
 Kris