[brynet]

Here are the other two related commits:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014212727213&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014250427343&w=2

There are unfortunately a lot of people who depend on file(1); and many of them also run it as root.

Also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439778

[SixSigma]

then why don't they run file(1) on a private copy ?

[brynet]

OpenBSD has yet to successfully program human behaviour.