From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Magic MIME Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87prv4h032.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202697075 2110 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2008 02:31:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 03:31:38 2008 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 1JOOSI-0003Pj-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:31:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOORp-00070l-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOORm-00070g-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOORj-0006xx-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOORj-0006xj-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOORj-0001Ha-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAHJCr0dMCpK7/2dsb2JhbACmc3s X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,331,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14010652" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 10 Feb 2008 21:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([76.10.146.187]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id REQ50002 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 46A33B4033; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87prv4h032.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:18:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:88709 Archived-At: > not to fail trying to open it as an archive. Archive files > have a well-known signature, and using content-based file > type recognition rather than filename-based is more reliable. C'mon Juri, you know better than that. We've been through it with the image-recognition thingy, so it *should* be clear to everyone on this list now that content based recognition is no better than filename-based recognition (and vice versa). We need to use both. Stefan