[File] Big endianess problem on s390x?

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Mon May 18 11:15:40 EDT 2026


Is this after the most recent change that includes byte swapping?

Thanks,

christos

> On May 18, 2026, at 8:01 AM, Dr. Werner Fink <werner at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> On 2026/05/18 11:38:07 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the test
>> 
>> [  133s] Running test: ../tests/efi-signature-list-sha256
>> [  133s] TZ=UTC MAGIC=../magic/magic ./test -e ../tests/efi-signature-list-sha256.testfile ../tests/efi-signature-list-sha256.result
>> [  133s] test: ERROR: result was (len 4)
>> [  133s] data
>> [  133s] expected (len 49)
>> [  133s] EFI Signature List, SHA256, total size: 76 bytes
>> [  133s] ../tests/efi-signature-list-sha256.testfile: data
>> 
>> fails on s390x 
>> 
> 
> The attached patch does resolve the problem ... there are also
> other way to solve that which woould require also changes in
> file_parse_guid()
> 
> Werner
> 
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