2011/9/7 Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blon...@gmail.com>: > 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.
No. If "data" means "somethings else" then that's clear enough for me. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ 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
