printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Tom Rodman wrote:
> On Mon 12/4/06 14:47 CST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
> --snip
>>    ~ $   date;uname -a
>>    Mon Dec  4 14:31:38 CST 2006
>>    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
>>    ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
>>    /dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 192 kBits, 32 kHz, Stereo
>>    --snip
>>    ~ $ date;uname -a
>>    Mon Dec  4 14:34:15 CST 2006
>>    Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>    ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
>>    standard input:              Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CR line terminators
>>    ~ $
>>
>> From above you can see linux and cygwin "file" output differs.  The printf
>> above was inspired recently when "file" mis-identified a unicode file.
>>
>> I don't think this is a new problem.
> 
> Maybe not a new problem, but this older (flame me) cygwin version works better:
> 
>   ~ $   date;uname -a  #box in Bangalore
>   Thu Dec  7 00:51:35 IST 2006
>   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 XXXblr001 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>   ~ $ cygcheck -c file
>   Cygwin Package Information
>   Package              Version
>   file                 3.39-1
> 
>   Use -h to see help about each section
>   ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
>   standard input:              Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CR line terminators
>   ~ $
> 
> I understand this is low priority.. Thanks as always for cygwin!


This is a change (or bug) in 'file', not Cygwin.  I get the same thing as you
do with Cygwin's version on FC4.  If you think there is an issue here, you
should take it upstream.


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