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

Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oops sorry, the directory in /usr/share/misc should be called magic not magdir.

christos

> On Aug 16, 2026, at 5:10 PM, Jason Thorpe via gnats <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The following reply was made to PR bin/60576; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
> To: Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected],
> [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: bin/60576: file(1) does not work on 68010 systems due to address
> space limits
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:09:31 -0700
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2026, at 2:39=E2=80=AFAM, Christos Zoulas =
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> =20
>> Try:
>> cp -r /usr/src/external/bsd/file/dist/magic/magdir /usr/share/misc
>> rm /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc
>> =20
>> 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#=20
> 
> -- thorpej
>
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