> One other reason is performance. Magic detection is extremely seek heavy > and thus performs extremely bad.
Yea, correct indeed. > A more significant problem is that network protocols do not support > parallel connections and thus sniffing without lag, and we have to > resort to extensions anyway (.txt on FTP, for instance). It's just not > feasible to read() remote files before opening them, at least not if we > do not cache the results [which is done for thumbnailing]. Yes. Beside this, (just thinking) directory with list permission (but no read of it's files) is also one of the reasons to see extension approach as prefered :) Hm... maybe in specs all these pros/cons could be noted so people does not get impression that this is 'extended copy' of behaviour from Windows. In few chats, what I could see, for most of them after specs reading, first association was broken mime system from Windows. Best, -- Sanel _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
