On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Evan Martin<[email protected]> wrote:
> We actually already "content sniff" plugin files on Linux, so that we
> don't print a loading error when attempting to load a wrong bit-ness
> plugin.  (Printing a loading error breaks layout tests.)  Thankfully,
> ELF has this information in the fifth byte of the file, just after the
> four-byte magic number, so it's not too heinous.

Yeah, I am kinda curious whether this approach can work generically
without adding anything to the manifest. Particularly since there is a
naming convention for shared libraries on all platforms.

I don't really know enough about this area to have a strong opinion, though.

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