On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:26:59 +0000 (GMT)
Phil Grundig <wdef200@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know it gets ELF binaries and shell scripts. What
does it miss?
Other scripts (perl, python ...), libraries.
Dunno, might be worth checking if this is system or version dependent. Maybe
different systems have different magic lists
/etc/magic:/usr/share/misc/file/magic
file-4.02 (quite old probably) certainly catches perl scripts regardless of x
permissions:
Not every perl script begins with #!/usr/bin/perl etc, and without such a line,
the file is reported as ascii text. Ditto for .py, and I guess for .rb etc.
Granted, we can't directly activate such a file, but it's still feasible for
user to setup to run it as an argument in a command line.
With libs, maybe you grep for "ELF" as well, that would also work for
executable binaries. (But the only action I can think of offhand that someone might
want to set for shared libs is ldd and it couldn't be that in demand).
AFAIK ELF is common, but not necessarily universal, format for all *NIX's that
can run gtk. See the various default actions in emelFM2 for libs, shared and
otherwise. Maybe they could benefit from some attention ?
Regards
Tom
