[File] [E] Re: How to detect go mac executables with magic.h?

[Matthew Czarnek]

Hi Christos,

I'm using version 5.11-37.el7 of file, the latest version.

For the mac executable on Linux:

"file magic8" correctly shows:

magic8: Mach-O 64-bit executable


But "file -i magic8", which I believe uses the magic.h header shows:

magic8: application/octet-stream; charset=binary

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 6:21 PM Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com> wrote:

> I don't know, it can be a number of things. What does the file(1) program
> say about it? What version of file(1) do you have installed on linux?
>
> christos
>
> On May 25, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Matthew Czarnek <
> matthew.czarnek at verizonmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I've been using this go library to detect file types to block our users
> from uploading exes:
> https://github.com/rakyll/magicmime
>
>
> On a mac it is capable of using the magic.h header to detect the file type
> of a go program compiled for mac as mime type "application/x-mach-binary",
> on Linux however, it is not able to detect those executables, only
> executables compiled for Linux. I'm guessing this is a matter of not having
> this file type registered in the magic database/file containing all the
> magic numbers?
>
> This is the beginning of the file:
>
> Ïúíþ^G^@^@^A^C^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^Q^@^@^@p^M^@^@<85>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^Y^@^@^@H
> ^@^@^@__PAGEZERO
>
> Is it possible to add this/fix this for my own version or the next release?
>
>
> -Matt
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