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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000133 | file | General | public | 2020-01-24 15:36 | 2020-02-12 22:18 |
| Reporter | eschwartz | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.38 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 5.39 | ||||
| Summary | 0000133: file 5.38 removed support for detecting pie executable | ||||
| Description | What is the purpose of commit https://github.com/file/file/commit/d653309de04ed10fdeda79f2c6ca7a7e96e122f1? | ||||
| Tags | magic | ||||
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It was pointed out in this downstream bug report ( https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65256 ) that the intention may be to unify pie-executable and shared libraries. "the unification makes sense as +x is not a appropriate way to detect if its a shared library or an application, which way around it should be is a matter of choice but technically PIE executables are not any different, except some subtile ways in relative references." I did not read this into the commit message which was used to describe the change, so forgive me if I've misunderstood the situation. But if there was any intent to heuristically detect pie executables vs. shared libraries, then at the moment it does not seem to be happening in actuality.a |
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You are right, I put it back. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2020-01-24 15:36 | eschwartz | New Issue | |
| 2020-01-24 15:36 | eschwartz | Tag Attached: magic | |
| 2020-01-24 20:39 | eschwartz | Note Added: 0003348 | |
| 2020-02-12 22:17 | christos | Assigned To | => christos |
| 2020-02-12 22:17 | christos | Status | new => assigned |
| 2020-02-12 22:18 | christos | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2020-02-12 22:18 | christos | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-02-12 22:18 | christos | Fixed in Version | => 5.39 |
| 2020-02-12 22:18 | christos | Note Added: 0003351 |
