From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:55:37 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Recommendation to omit zero bytes in MAGIC
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Recommendation to omit zero bytes in MAGIC
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diff --git a/spec/encoding/magic.texi b/spec/encoding/magic.texi
index 1a885cd..f46b941 100644
--- a/spec/encoding/magic.texi
+++ b/spec/encoding/magic.texi
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 MAGIC is an atom holding magic number/string aimed to identify the data
 following it. It is a concatenation of ASCII("KEKS") and 12-byte magic,
-padded with zeros if necessary.
+padded with zeros if necessary. Zero bytes should not be used in it,
+except for trailing ones.
+
 It is intended to be prepended to the KEKS-encoded data in files.
 
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