From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48150C03.1010303@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
Chong Yidong wrote:
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>
>
>> Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>> But before continuing, i would like to discover if anyone else is
>>> working on something similar, to avoid (more?) duplicate effort.
>>>
>>>
>> magic-mode-alist was added early in the development of Emacs 22. All
>> entries were removed from it shortly before Emacs 22.1 was released
>> due to security issues that were raised during pretest.
>>
>
> I don't recall that there was any security issues. Rather, these
> entries were moved to magic-fallback-mode-alist, so that they have a
> lower priority than filename autodetection.
>
The image entries were all dropped completely because of the supposed
security issues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 11:36 recognizing a file by scanning it Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-27 21:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-28 3:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-28 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-27 21:15 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-27 22:52 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-27 23:28 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-04-28 3:16 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-28 8:05 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-28 18:07 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-28 18:13 ` Jason Rumney
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