[File] file-5.37 is now available.
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Fri May 17 02:52:45 UTC 2019
Hello,
File-5.37 is now available from:
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.37.tar.gz
This is a bug fix release:
* Make sure that continuation separators are printed
with -k within softmagic
* PR/77: Handle --mime-type and -k correctly.
* PR/75: --enable-zlib, did not work.
With performance improvements:
* Change SIGPIPE saving and restoring during compression to use
sigaction(2) instead of signal(3) and cache it. (Denys Vlasenko)
* Cache stat(2) calls more to reduce number of calls (Denys Vlasenko)
* Switch decompression code to use vfork() because
tools like rpmdiff and rpmbuild call libmagic
with large process footprints (Denys Vlasenko)
* Improve regex efficiency (Michael Schroeder) by:
1. Prefixing regex searches with regular search
for keywords where possible
2. Using memmem(3) where available
And of course many magic fixes and improvements.
Enjoy,
christos
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