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minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThe library that handles it is literally called “libmagic”. I’d guess the phrase “magic bytes” comes from the programming concept of a magic number?
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI did not know about that one! It makes sense though, because a lot of headers would start with, well yeah, “magic numbers”. Makes sense.
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?
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.