broken /usr/bin/file behaviour

[Greg Matthews]

Whoever wrote libmagic seems to be a fan of the BBC comedy "Are you
being served?"

create an ascii file that begins:
I'm free

and then run /usr/bin/file against it. It is reported as:
Apple QuickTime movie file (free)

Does this count as a bug - it has certainly bugged one of my users who
has had his email blocked as a result.

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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