Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs/lisp image.el

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Then we should perhaps obsolete `image-jpeg-p' (which is not used
>> anymore in the sources).
>> 
>> Currently it does what its docstring says, but there's some of a
>> mismatch with the name (which seems to imply more generality); also it
>> is not clear what purpose does serve a function to detect just
>> JFIF/Exif JPEGs. And generalizing it would turn it into a trivial
>> two-liner.

> Gerd, do you remember the original rationale for image-jpeg-p?

I have a the vague impression that it's linked to the long discussion we
had about safety and other such things linked to the use of magic-* in
preference to auto-mode-alist, so we wanted to avoid false positives.


        Stefan