combine file, blkid/fstype and readelf

[technosaurus]

file shares multiple purposes with blkid/fstype (file has similar functionality for filesystems) and readelf (parts of readelf have already been implemented in the current version of file)

I already did a lot of scraping of offsets and magic values for the MIME type data here.

Or perhaps their functions should go in the library?

[landley]

On 03/02/2016 12:32 PM, technosaurus wrote:

|file| shares multiple purposes with |blkid|/|fstype| (|file| has
similar functionality for filesystems) and |readelf| (parts of |readelf|
have already been implemented in the current version of |file|)

File is still actively being developed to the point patches are
clashing. I'm not going to try to factor out common stuff while it's in
flight. That said, I'm regularly factoring out common code after the
fact (for example commits cf0f037 and 5493916).

I already did a lot of scraping of offsets and magic values for the MIME
type data here https://github.com/technosaurus/MIMEtype.

Yay, I think I already have that bookmarked after it was mentioned on
the list? Or is this another thing?

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nothing immediately actionable here, but shareable code regularly gets moved to lib/ and shared.