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author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-01-01 05:39:43 +0000 |
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committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-01-01 05:39:43 +0000 |
commit | 87d6fde760865f6a73395e6a7a56b3a608ea99b1 (patch) | |
tree | 642b6c9d31fbc0f98b1a7fac09aa341daf3ddb15 /contrib/file/MAINT | |
parent | 99e8b7f6d178e1403522ce383957e9c576b7c3ad (diff) | |
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Flatten the file vendor area.
Remove the svn:keywords property from the vendor files.
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diff --git a/contrib/file/MAINT b/contrib/file/MAINT deleted file mode 100644 index 077f9d6..0000000 --- a/contrib/file/MAINT +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -$File: MAINT,v 1.9 2007/01/19 21:15:27 christos Exp $ - -Maintenance notes: - -I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help, -but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following: - -- Do not distribute changed versions. - -People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions -of the file command for anonymous FTP, and people all over the -world get copies of the hacked versions. Within a day or two I am -getting email from around the world asking me why "my" file command -won't compile!!! Needless to say this detracts from the limited -time I have available to work on the actual software. Therefore I -ask you again to please NOT distribute your changed version. If -you need to make changes, please add a patch file next to the -distribution tar, and a README file that clearly explains what you -are trying to fix. - -Thank you for your assistance and cooperation. - -Code Overview - -This is a rough idea of the control flow from the main program: - -file.c main() -file.c process (called for each file) - printf file name -magic.c magic_file() -fsmagic.c file_fsmagic() - (handles statbuf modes for DEV) - (handles statbuf modes for executable &c. - reads data from file. -funcs.c: file_buffer() -compress.c file_zmagic() -is_tar.c file_is_tar() -softmagic.c file_softmagic() - match() - looks for match against main magic database -ascmagic.c file_ascmagic() -readelf.c file_tryelf() - "unknown" - -Christos Zoulas -christos@astron.com |