Re: bin/60576: file(1) does not work on 68010 systems due to address space limits

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Aug 16, 2026, at 2:39 AM, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Try:
> cp -r /usr/src/external/bsd/file/dist/magic/magdir /usr/share/misc
> rm /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc
> 
> and see if that behaves better.

icarus# ls -ld /usr/share/misc/magdir/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  6144 Aug 16 07:06 /usr/share/misc/magdir/
icarus# ls -ld /usr/share/misc/magdir/elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13780 Jun 13 07:04 /usr/share/misc/magdir/elf
icarus# file /netbsd
file: could not find any valid magic files! (No such file or directory)
icarus# 

-- thorpej
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