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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.
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Anthony J. Bentley |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous. |
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Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:36:46 -0700 |
Ralph Corderoy writes:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> > OpenBSD's file(1) implementation apparently sees this file
> > differently.
> >
> > $ file -i nmh-1.7/test/mhbuild/nulls
> > nmh-1.7/test/mhbuild/nulls: application/x-not-regular-file
>
> Can you tell from file(1)'s source if there's something that makes it
> choose between application/x-not-regular-file and
> application/octet-stream so nulls could be altered to fit, e.g. the
> number of NULs?
x-not-regular-file was the default for unknown files. The file(1) author
and I decided to change it to octet-stream[1], so nmh tests all pass now.
1: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151204021400810&w=2
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Anthony J. Bentley