• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “Magic bytes”? We just called them headers, back in my day (even if sometimes they are at the end of the file)

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      1 year ago

      The library that handles it is literally called “libmagic”. I’d guess the phrase “magic bytes” comes from the programming concept of a magic number?

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        1 year ago

        I did not know about that one! It makes sense though, because a lot of headers would start with, well yeah, “magic numbers”. Makes sense.