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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.15-3


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According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/7/2005 4:35 AM:
> I've updated the version of file to 4.15-3.
> 
> This release is supposed to solve problems examining binary files
> on textmode mounts.

I don't know if this is a regression, or exposing a bug with cygwin's
virtual file handling, but with a recent snapshot:

$ file /proc/$$/ppid
/proc/164/ppid: empty
$ cat /proc/$$/ppid
3904

Hmm - if cat(1) can see contents, why does file(1) treat it as empty?
Maybe it's a cygwin bug after all, since the size is being reported as 0:

$ ls -l /proc/$$/ppid
- -r--r--r--  1 eblake None 0 Sep  8 06:40 /proc/164/ppid

If stat() can't easily determine file sizes in /proc, then it might be
better to report those files as a different file type rather than regular
files.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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