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Bug in file "magic.txt"

(1) By Vedran (phidrho) on 2022-10-20 09:45:49 [source]

There is a mistake in comment about offset in "user_version", and some duplicated spaces. Also, a new entry should be considered from blogpost: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/21288bfa8462be6066a2ecf151d3653a8a589d7f7394539293b646a4afd97bea

Current version:

# This file contains suggested magic(5) text for the unix file(1)
# utility for recognizing SQLite3 databases.
#
# When SQLite is used as an application file format, it is desirable to
# have file(1) recognize the database file as being with the specific
# application.  You can set the application_id for a database file
# using:
#
#     PRAGMA application_id = INTEGER;
#
# INTEGER can be any signed 32-bit integer.  That integer is written as
# a 4-byte big-endian integer into offset 68 of the database header. 
#
# The Monotone application used "PRAGMA user_version=1598903374;" to set
# its identifier long before "PRAGMA application_id" became available.
# The user_version is very similar to application_id except that it is
# stored at offset 68 instead of offset 60.  The application_id pragma
# is preferred.  The rule using offset 60 for Monotone is for historical
# compatibility only.
#
0    string  =SQLite\ format\ 3
>68  belong  =0x0f055112  Fossil checkout - 
>68  belong  =0x0f055113  Fossil global configuration - 
>68  belong  =0x0f055111  Fossil repository -
>68  belong  =0x42654462  Bentley Systems BeSQLite Database -
>68  belong  =0x42654c6e  Bentley Systems Localization File -
>60  belong  =0x5f4d544e  Monotone source repository -
>68  belong  =0x47504b47  OGC GeoPackage file -
>68  belong  =0x47503130  OGC GeoPackage version 1.0 file -
>68  belong  =0x45737269  Esri Spatially-Enabled Database -
>68  belong  =0x4d504258  MBTiles tileset -
>0   string  =SQLite      SQLite3 database

Corrected version (with included TeXnicard):

# This file contains suggested magic(5) text for the unix file(1)
# utility for recognizing SQLite3 databases.
#
# When SQLite is used as an application file format, it is desirable to
# have file(1) recognize the database file as being with the specific
# application. You can set the application_id for a database file
# using:
#
#     PRAGMA application_id = INTEGER;
#
# INTEGER can be any signed 32-bit integer. That integer is written as
# a 4-byte big-endian integer into offset 68 of the database header.
#
# The Monotone application used "PRAGMA user_version=1598903374;" to set
# its identifier long before "PRAGMA application_id" became available.
# The user_version is very similar to application_id except that it is
# stored at offset 60 instead of offset 68. The application_id pragma
# is preferred. The rule using offset 60 for Monotone is for historical
# compatibility only.
#
0    string  =SQLite\ format\ 3
>68  belong  =0x0f055112  Fossil checkout -
>68  belong  =0x0f055113  Fossil global configuration -
>68  belong  =0x0f055111  Fossil repository -
>68  belong  =0x42654462  Bentley Systems BeSQLite Database -
>68  belong  =0x42654c6e  Bentley Systems Localization File -
>60  belong  =0x5f4d544e  Monotone source repository -
>68  belong  =0x47504b47  OGC GeoPackage file -
>68  belong  =0x47503130  OGC GeoPackage version 1.0 file -
>68  belong  =0x45737269  Esri Spatially-Enabled Database -
>68  belong  =0x4d504258  MBTiles tileset -
>68  belong  =0x6a035744  TeXnicard card database
>0   string  =SQLite      SQLite3 database

(2) By Stephan Beal (stephan) on 2022-10-20 19:00:41 in reply to 1 [link] [source]

Corrected version (with included TeXnicard):

Your fix and addition have been applied, thank you. The two-spaces-between-sentences was retained for compatibility with drh's writing style, however. (When we learned to type, folks were taught to use 2 spaces between sentences, so that's a historical muscle-memory thing.)