[diffoscope] 02/05: comparators.iso9660: Some .iso images appear as "DOS/MBR boot sector"

Ximin Luo infinity0 at debian.org
Mon Mar 20 17:57:00 CET 2017


Chris Lamb:
> Hi Ximin,
> 
>> Do you have an example file for this case?
> 
> Yes, the Tails ISO images.
> 

According to wikipedia, ISO images are defined by bytes 32770-32774 being "CD001". I think file(1) does not like to read that far ahead due to some historical design decisions, but I think it would be best to add this check to diffoscope.

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