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Bug #2815

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race condition during file-magic initialization

Added by magen bluten almost 6 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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the function `magic_open()` initializes a static global table (c array) without locking. thus, there is a race condition if multiple threads call `magic_open` in parallel. the corresponding source in the `file` repository is (in function `init_file_tables`);

https://git.in-ulm.de/cbiedl/file/src/master/src/apprentice.c#L389

not sure how the init sequence works in suri. so this could also be a non-issue.

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