Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: /etc/magic with execute?
Message-ID: <477@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 17:16:34 GMT
References: <40600003@urbsdc>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >With all the discussion on "/etc/magic", a question I've had for a long
 >time came to mind.  Why is the file's permissions set to "-rwxr-xr-x"
 >on distribution? Is there any good reason why the file should have
 >"execute" set?

No.  It has mode "rw-r--r--" in SunOS.