Re: RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system

Garrett Wollman wrote:
In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/46546E16.9070707@xxxxxxxxxxx> you write:
FreeBSD architects and file(1) maintainer,
3. Due to its nature as a program which parses multiple data formats, it
poses an unusually high risk of having security problems in the future
(cf. ethereal/wireshark).

And this doesn't apply to, say, awk(1)?

Eh? Unless I'm seriously confused, awk doesn't parse any data formats...

Colin Percival
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