[haiku-commits] Re: r39175 - haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/index_server

  • From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:57:25 +0200

Regarding metadata extraction tools:
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Document_Metadata_Extraction

A future (GPL) addon could also take profit of GNU's libextractor:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/

Which lead quickly to the issue of concurrent add-ons fighting to
analyze the same entry_ref.
I didn't look into the current implementation, but is it already handled?

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