[File] file-5.42 is now available
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Fri Jun 10 14:06:56 UTC 2022
Hi,
I am pleased to make file-5.42 available from:
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.42.tar.gz
New Features:
* cache regex (Dirk Mueller)
* merge file_regcomp and file_regerror() to simplify the code
and reduce memory requirements for storing regexes (Dirk Mueller)
* implement running decompressor programs using
posix_spawnp(2) instead of vfork(2)
* Add support for msdos dates and times
Bug Fixes:
* PR/351: octalify filenames when not raw before printing.
* PR/348: add missing cases to prevent file from aborting on
random magic files.
* fix regex cacheing bug (Dirk Mueller)
* detect filesystem full by flushing output (Dirk Mueller)
* use the system byte swapping functions if available (Werner Fink)
Plus a ton of magic additions mainly by Joerg Jenderek.
Enjoy,
christos
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