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LIBMAGIC(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		   LIBMAGIC(3)

NAME
     magic_open, magic_close, magic_error, magic_descriptor, magic_buffer,
     magic_setflags, magic_check, magic_compile, magic_load — Magic number
     recognition library

LIBRARY
     Magic Number Recognition Library (libmagic, -lmagic)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <magic.h>

     magic_t
     magic_open(int flags);

     void
     magic_close(magic_t cookie);

     const char *
     magic_error(magic_t cookie);

     int
     magic_errno(magic_t cookie);

     const char *
     magic_descriptor(magic_t cookie, int fd);

     const char *
     magic_file(magic_t cookie, const char *filename);

     const char *
     magic_buffer(magic_t cookie, const void *buffer, size_t length);

     int
     magic_setflags(magic_t cookie, int flags);

     int
     magic_check(magic_t cookie, const char *filename);

     int
     magic_compile(magic_t cookie, const char *filename);

     int
     magic_load(magic_t cookie, const char *filename);

DESCRIPTION
     These functions operate on the magic database file which is described in
     magic(5).

     The function magic_open() creates a magic cookie pointer and returns it.
     It returns NULL if there was an error allocating the magic cookie.	 The
     flags argument specifies how the other magic functions should behave:

     MAGIC_NONE	     No special handling.

     MAGIC_DEBUG     Print debugging messages to stderr.

     MAGIC_SYMLINK   If the file queried is a symlink, follow it.

     MAGIC_COMPRESS  If the file is compressed, unpack it and look at the con‐
		     tents.

     MAGIC_DEVICES   If the file is a block or character special device, then
		     open the device and try to look in its contents.

     MAGIC_MIME_TYPE
		     Return a MIME type string, instead of a textual descrip‐
		     tion.

     MAGIC_MIME_ENCODING
		     Return a MIME encoding, instead of a textual description.

     MAGIC_MIME	     A shorthand for MAGIC_MIME_TYPE | MAGIC_MIME_ENCODING.

     MAGIC_CONTINUE  Return all matches, not just the first.

     MAGIC_CHECK     Check the magic database for consistency and print warn‐
		     ings to stderr.

     MAGIC_PRESERVE_ATIME
		     On systems that support utime(3) or utimes(2), attempt to
		     preserve the access time of files analysed.

     MAGIC_RAW	     Don't translate unprintable characters to a \ooo octal
		     representation.

     MAGIC_ERROR     Treat operating system errors while trying to open files
		     and follow symlinks as real errors, instead of printing
		     them in the magic buffer.

     MAGIC_APPLE     Return the Apple creator and type.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_APPTYPE
		     Don't check for EMX application type (only on EMX).

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_CDF
		     Don't get extra information on MS Composite Document
		     Files.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_COMPRESS
		     Don't look inside compressed files.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ELF
		     Don't print ELF details.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ENCODING
		     Don't check text encodings.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_SOFT
		     Don't consult magic files.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TAR
		     Don't examine tar files.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TEXT
		     Don't check for various types of text files.

     MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TOKENS
		     Don't look for known tokens inside ascii files.

     The magic_close() function closes the magic(5) database and deallocates
     any resources used.

     The magic_error() function returns a textual explanation of the last
     error, or NULL if there was no error.

     The magic_errno() function returns the last operating system error number
     (errno(2)) that was encountered by a system call.

     The magic_file() function returns a textual description of the contents
     of the filename argument, or NULL if an error occurred.  If the filename
     is NULL, then stdin is used.

     The magic_descriptor() function returns a textual description of the con‐
     tents of the fd argument, or NULL if an error occurred.

     The magic_buffer() function returns a textual description of the contents
     of the buffer argument with length bytes size.

     The magic_setflags() function sets the flags described above.  Note that
     using both MIME flags together can also return extra information on the
     charset.

     The magic_check() function can be used to check the validity of entries
     in the colon separated database files passed in as filename, or NULL for
     the default database.  It returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.

     The magic_compile() function can be used to compile the the colon sepa‐
     rated list of database files passed in as filename, or NULL for the
     default database.	It returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.  The com‐
     piled files created are named from the basename(1) of each file argument
     with “.mgc” appended to it.

     The magic_load() function must be used to load the the colon separated
     list of database files passed in as filename, or NULL for the default
     database file before any magic queries can performed.

     The default database file is named by the MAGIC environment variable.  If
     that variable is not set, the default database file name is
     /usr/share/misc/magic.  magic_load() adds “.mgc” to the database filename
     as appropriate.

RETURN VALUES
     The function magic_open() returns a magic cookie on success and NULL on
     failure setting errno to an appropriate value.  It will set errno to
     EINVAL if an unsupported value for flags was given.  The magic_load(),
     magic_compile(), and magic_check() functions return 0 on success and -1
     on failure.  The magic_file(), and magic_buffer() functions return a
     string on success and NULL on failure.  The magic_error() function
     returns a textual description of the errors of the above functions, or
     NULL if there was no error.  Finally, magic_setflags() returns -1 on sys‐
     tems that don't support utime(3), or utimes(2) when MAGIC_PRESERVE_ATIME
     is set.

FILES
     /usr/share/misc/magic	The non-compiled default magic database.
     /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc	The compiled default magic database.

SEE ALSO
     file(1), magic(5)

AUTHORS
     Måns Rullgård Initial libmagic implementation, and configuration.
     Christos Zoulas API cleanup, error code and allocation handling.

BSD			       January 14, 2011				   BSD
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