From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:03 +0100 Message-ID: <48150C03.1010303@gnu.org> References: <87od7vr0kt.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <4814ED09.8030707@gnu.org> <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209338917 16193 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2008 23:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 01:29:12 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqGIx-0002UP-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:29:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqGIH-0001Ss-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqGIC-0001SP-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqGIA-0001Ry-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53619 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqGIA-0001Rt-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqGIA-0007DK-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:22 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 104883166/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4EABupFEhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBU6c8 X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2008 00:28:09 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362B91E0; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:07 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96031 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Jason Rumney 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.