[ROOT] [Fwd: Re: addition for magic...]
From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 12:12:37 MEST
ROOT magic accepted.
Cheers, Fons.
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On Jun 15, 8:20pm, Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch (Fons Rademakers) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: addition for magic...
ok, I'll put it in.
christos
| Hi Christos,
|
| the following works too for the ROOT format:
|
| #----------------------------------------------------------------------
| # ROOT: file(1) magic for ROOT databases
| #
| 0 string root\0 ROOT file
| >4 belong x Version %d
| >33 belong x (Compression: %d)
|
|
| and does not affect /etc/passwd. And this is inline with some other
| entries like:
|
| 0 string Core\001 Alpha COFF format core dump
|
| I would like to ask you to reconsider this modified entry.
|
|
| Cheers, Fons.
|
|
|
|
| On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:44, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > On Jun 14, 3:07pm, Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch (Fons Rademakers) wrote:
| > -- Subject: addition for magic...
| >
| > I will hesitate to add it, and I would like to plea with the authors of
| > the software, not to use ascii strings as magic numbers. At least please
| > don't use words. It is a very bad idea to use "root" as the magic number.
| > What happens if I type file /etc/passwd? It will say "ROOT file". I bet
| > there are more systems out there with passwd files than root databases,
| > so I don't think it is a good idea to add it to the magic database.
| >
| > regards,
| >
| > christos
| >
| > | Hi Christos,
| > |
| > | I would like to ask you if you could add the following entry to magic:
| > |
| > | #----------------------------------------------------------------------
| > | # ROOT: file(1) magic for ROOT databases
| > | #
| > | 0 string root ROOT file
| > | >4 belong x Version %d
| > | >33 belong x (Compression: %d)
| > |
| > |
| > | The ROOT databases are produced by the ROOT system
| > | (http://root.cern.ch/). This Object Oriented data processing system is
| > | used world wide by many large scientific institutions (CERN, FNAL, BNL,
| > | SLAC, etc.) to store their scientific data. The file format is quite
| > | mature and already several Peta Bytes of data are stored in it.
| > |
| > | Cheers, Fons.
| > |
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