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Re^2: File::MMagic returns application/octet-stream for most filesby ajlittoz (Novice) |
on Jan 23, 2016 at 20:43 UTC ( [id://1153488]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Yes, I forced File::MMagic->new() and printed what was returned from checktype_contents(). It is invariably application/octet-stream which makes me think that the reference to the system magic file has been lost between the time I constructed a new MMagic object and it is used (although I dumped the object variable and that shows the same address). My version is 1.27 like yours, Perl is v5.14.4. Here is part of my initialisation code. As you can see, I have commented out references to magic files (the system file name is passed through hash member 'magicmime' while a fall-back file exists in the private library lib. The initial part of the file to test is read-in separately before calling one of the two functions defined in the "configuration" hash.
Function &discard seems to work fine (at least it returns true on text files). Function &mimetype returns either text/plain or application/octet-stream on my test files. I may have made a big mistake in my code as I'm using a non-scope variable binding for $magic: when the functions are called, the block containing my $magic has disappeared for a long time.
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