From: Christos Zoulas Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:22:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: - use my astron address X-Git-Tag: FILE5_05~485 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=903cadc410fc024f5a2d89e5bfeb9308205be798;p=file - use my astron address - remove commented out done stuff --- diff --git a/doc/file.man b/doc/file.man index 3c574aa2..f71b6608 100644 --- a/doc/file.man +++ b/doc/file.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $File: file.man,v 1.70 2008/02/07 00:58:51 christos Exp $ +.\" $File: file.man,v 1.71 2008/02/14 20:22:05 christos Exp $ .Dd January 8, 2007 .Dt FILE __CSECTION__ .Os @@ -510,17 +510,10 @@ were written by John Gilmore from his public-domain .Xr tar 1 program, and are not covered by the above license. .Sh BUGS +.Pp There must be a better way to automate the construction of the Magic file from all the glop in Magdir. What is it? -.\" Compilation support has been done -.\" Better yet, the magic file should be compiled into binary (say, -.\" .Xr ndbm 3 -.\" or, better yet, fixed-length -.\" .Dv ASCII -.\" strings for use in heterogenous network environments) for faster startup. -.\" Then the program would run as fast as the Version 7 program of the same -.\" name, with the flexibility of the System V version. .Pp .Nm uses several algorithms that favor speed over accuracy, @@ -530,13 +523,6 @@ files. .Pp The support for text files (primarily for programming languages) is simplistic, inefficient and requires recompilation to update. -.\" Else support has been done -.\" There should be an -.\" .Dv else -.\" clause to follow a series of continuation lines. -.\" .Pp -.\" Regular expression support has been done -.\" The magic file and keywords should have regular expression support. .Pp The list of keywords in .Dv ascmagic @@ -545,11 +531,6 @@ This could be done by using some keyword like .Sq * for the offset value. .Pp -.\" Sorting has been done. -.\" Another optimization would be to sort -.\" the magic file so that we can just run down all the -.\" tests for the first byte, first word, first long, etc, once we -.\" have fetched it. Complain about conflicts in the magic file entries. Make a rule that the magic entries sort based on file offset rather than position within the magic file?