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| author | Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> | 2018-07-25 06:23:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> | 2018-07-25 06:23:22 +0000 |
| commit | d63f218352622b74e8a323a9177e612c947ce848 (patch) | |
| tree | b3aa5b158649a8f6af66adc88a9b71234945f41a /doc | |
| parent | 2086f24088b31db21d147046cbf1503c52ff55ff (diff) | |
| download | file-git-d63f218352622b74e8a323a9177e612c947ce848.tar.gz | |
PR/11: Mention that magic_file and magic_buffer can produce different
results.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/libmagic.man | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/libmagic.man b/doc/libmagic.man index 4c7e42ff..829e3657 100644 --- a/doc/libmagic.man +++ b/doc/libmagic.man @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $File: libmagic.man,v 1.41 2017/05/23 21:54:07 christos Exp $ +.\" $File: libmagic.man,v 1.42 2018/07/25 06:23:22 christos Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) Christos Zoulas 2003. +.\" Copyright (c) Christos Zoulas 2003, 2018. .\" All Rights Reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd May 23, 2017 +.Dd July 25, 2018 .Dt LIBMAGIC 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -391,6 +391,19 @@ The compiled default magic database. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr file __CSECTION__ , .Xr magic __FSECTION__ +.Sh BUGS +The results from +.Fn magic_buffer +and +.Fn magic_file +where the buffer and the file contain the same data +can produce different results, because in the +.Fn magic_file +case, the program can +.Xr lseek 2 +and +.Xr stat 2 +the file descriptor. .Sh AUTHORS .An M\(oans Rullg\(oard Initial libmagic implementation, and configuration. |