file -i (mime type) has bug ?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 8 09:29:33 PDT 2005


In the last episode (Sep 08), Andriy Gapon said:
> 
> Additional information:
> 
> >file mod_ibm_admin.so
> mod_ibm_admin.so: executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module not stripped
> 
> >file -i mod_ibm_admin.so
> mod_ibm_admin.so: video/unknown
> 
> I wonder what might be causing this "xenophobia".

-i uses the magic.mime file instead of the standard magic file, and
there are no entries for RISC executables in there.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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