2011/9/7 Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com>: > 2011/9/6 Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blon...@gmail.com>: > ... >> # Cache file for the database of Zope (done by ClientStorage) >> 0 string ZEC3 Zope Object Database Client Cache File (data) > > Question: What is the significance of "(data)"?
It's a convention in order to help understanding what the file is. For that, the output of `file` should includes one of the words "text", "executable" or "data" in the description. I suppose it's mainly used for shell scripting (with a pipe to `grep` for example). In the manpage of `file` on my system (Debian testing): - "The type printed will usually contain one of the words _text_ (the file contains only printing characters and a few common control characters and is probably safe to read on an ASCII terminal), _executable_ (the file contains the result of compiling a program in a form understandable to some UNIX kernel or another), or _data_ meaning anything else (data is usually ‘binary’ or non-printable). Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives) that are known to contain binary data. When adding local definitions to /etc/magic, make sure to _preserve_ _these_ _keywords_." That's why I added it. I know that some other descriptions paste the filetype in parenthesis at the end of the line. If you think there is a better description including the filetype, don't hesitate to say it. -- Imprimez ce message en A2 et en couleur au moins 500 fois! Brûlez des arbres!! -- envoyé depuis ma centrale à charbon Stéphane _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
