1$File: MAINT,v 1.10 2008/02/05 19:08:11 christos Exp $ 2 3Maintenance notes: 4 5I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help, 6but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following: 7 8- Do not distribute changed versions. 9 10People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions 11of the file command for anonymous FTP, and people all over the 12world get copies of the hacked versions. Within a day or two I am 13getting email from around the world asking me why "my" file command 14won't compile!!! Needless to say this detracts from the limited 15time I have available to work on the actual software. Therefore I 16ask you again to please NOT distribute your changed version. If 17you need to make changes, please add a patch file next to the 18distribution tar, and a README file that clearly explains what you 19are trying to fix. 20 21Thank you for your assistance and cooperation. 22 23Code Overview 24 25This is a rough idea of the control flow from the main program: 26 27file.c main() 28file.c process (called for each file) 29 printf file name 30magic.c magic_file() 31fsmagic.c file_fsmagic() 32 (handles statbuf modes for DEV) 33 (handles statbuf modes for executable &c. 34 reads data from file. 35funcs.c: file_buffer() 36compress.c file_zmagic() 37is_tar.c file_is_tar() 38softmagic.c file_softmagic() 39 match() - looks for match against main magic database 40ascmagic.c file_ascmagic() 41readelf.c file_tryelf() 42 "unknown" 43 44Christos Zoulas (see README for email address) 45