Shared-mime checking order
Sanel Zukan
sanelz at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 04:16:41 PDT 2007
> 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
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