Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip support in file(1)/magic(5)

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Jan,

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> wanting to let you know that the following patch has been submitted to 
> the file(1) maintainer.

Thanks! Just yesterday Christos accepted this patch from me:
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diff -u file-4.26/magic/Magdir/compress file-4.26.new/magic/Magdir/compress
--- file-4.26/magic/Magdir/compress     2008-05-22 20:59:35.000000000 +0200
+++ file-4.26.new/magic/Magdir/compress 2008-11-25 21:56:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 !:mime application/x-bzip2
 >3     byte            >47             \b, block size = %c00k

+# lzip
+0      string          LZIP            lzip compressed data
+!:mime application/x-lzip
+>4     byte            x               \b, version: %d
+
 # squeeze and crunch
 # Michael Haardt <address@hidden>
 0      beshort         0x76FF          squeezed data,

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Yours is more complete. I didn't include the dictionary size because it 
may move in a future version (very unlikely) and because it is not easy 
to display it in human-understandable form.


Thanks,
Antonio.