[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Nicholas Riley]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 06:02:17PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> >
> >+ Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>:
> >
> >>I have not yet tried to decipher 
> >>"\312\376\272\276^B^G^C^P^Z\2120^L^R". Unicode, perhaps?
> >
> >No, definitely not utf-8 at least. Looks like random binary garbage to me.
> 
> It is the same every time. Google tells me that the string 
> "\312\376\272\276", which is hex "0xCAFEBABE", is the magic string for 
> application/x-java-byte-code. Why this should appear here is mysterious, 
> it may well be something specific for my machine here.

It's also the magic number for Mach-O binaries, which is more likely
than Java class files in this case.

% xxd /bin/ls | head -1
0000000: cafe babe 0000 0002 0000 0007 0000 0003  ................

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