Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:48:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> If you're on a non-Windows system, the mime-type becomes far more >> important than >> the extension. Most programs in Linux (and I believe MacOS X as well) >> don't care >> about the extension. They just look at the mime type. Extensions become >> almost >> entirely a thing for the user. So, whether your file is useable becomes >> more of >> an issue of known mime type than known extension. Still, you don't >> generally >> want to just be making up extensions. >> >> > I didn't think unix file systems had a concept of mime type.
Yep, they don't. The new file systems like reiserfs have support for arbitrary metadata fields, IIRC. But for example the standard Linux distributions have their mime/extension associations in /etc/mime.types
