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[PATCH] doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS magi


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS magic
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:18:11 +0100

I've been running this rule sporadically, but it should be part of the
pre-release process, so ...

If anyone knows of a more up-to-date list of file system
magic numbers, please let us know.

>From 6e3299fcdb783b19552dbb2ceb0d012ce51a3501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:13:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS
 magic

* README-release: Run the Makefile rule that checks for new file
system magic numbers.
---
 README-release |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README-release b/README-release
index af2610a..e76adb7 100644
--- a/README-release
+++ b/README-release
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when 
making a release.

 FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?

+* Check for new file system types by running the following command on
+  a system with the most recent kernel possible (e.g., Fedora rawhide):
+
+    make -C src fs-magic-compare
+
+  If it finds a new file system magic number, add it to src/stat.c.
+  If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created
+  in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's
+  fremote function.
+
 * Pre-release testing:

   Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and
--
1.7.8.385.g1d1cb



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