Re: jpegs throwing up 'ambiguous filetype' dialog

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:15:24 +0000 (GMT)
Phil Grundig <wdef200@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > As it happens, I already applied something similar. Trouble
> > is, scanning for "executable" in file(1) output
> > does not identify all relevant items
> 
> I know it gets ELF binaries and shell scripts.  What does it miss?

Other scripts (perl, python ...), libraries.

> 
> Re: symlinks - I notice from the man page that the -L option to file is 
> supposed to cause it to follow symbolic links - that might fix the breakage I 
> mentioned concerning my demo patch.

In general, the application does not traverse links, but in an 'opening' 
context I think it's ok to do so.

Regards
Tom

  


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