[File] Systemd unit files as Windows init files detected

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On 2026/04/07 10:58:10 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> Just reported here in a bug and I can verify this
> 
>  current/packages> file -b /usr/lib/systemd/system/*.service | sort -u
>  ASCII text
>  Generic INItialization configuration [Install]
>  Generic INItialization configuration [Service]
>  Unicode text, UTF-8 text
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-cmdline.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-initqueue.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-mount.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-pre-mount.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-pre-pivot.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-pre-trigger.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-pre-udev.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-shutdown-onfailure.service
>  symbolic link to ../../dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-shutdown.service
>  symbolic link to alsa-restore.service
>  symbolic link to getty at .service
>  symbolic link to systemd-hostnamed.service
>  symbolic link to systemd-importd.service
>  symbolic link to systemd-localed.service
>  symbolic link to systemd-logind.service
>  symbolic link to systemd-machined.service
>  symbolic link to systemd-timedated.service
> 
>  current/packages> file -b --mime-type /usr/lib/systemd/system/*.service | sort -u
>  application/x-wine-extension-ini
>  inode/symlink
>  text/plain
> 
> ... the application/x-wine-extension-ini aka Generic INItialization configuration
> are returned due to the new deeply regex in file-5.47/magic/Magdir/windows
> 

see: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2292157#p2292157

see: Revert PR/679: matches too many unix stanza files (like toml).
https://github.com/file/file/commit/f37cc42c535a08598d3ec4b4fa7aa73af7a8e223

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