devel/kscope/Makefile is not ASCII

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Jul 19 02:29:28 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 22:21 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> [dan at nezlok:/usr] $ file ports/devel/kscope/Makefile
> ports/devel/kscope/Makefile: Apple Old Partition data block size: 
> 21117 first type: HTML/en/${PORTNAME}, number of blocks: 1935896432,
> 
> Several others have tested their ports tree and found similar 
> results.  I've tried both the base system file and the one from 
> ports.  Both give similar results.
> 
> Any ideas why this file is so special?

The "magic" entry for Apple partitions is a bit unfortunate?  If a file
happens to have the string 'CD' at offset 512, file will misrecognize it
as an "Apple Old Partition data" file.  (And if it's "MP" then it's
"Apple Partition data".)

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