On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Michael Phipps wrote: > On 2004-02-09 at 09:39:17 [-0500], theUser BL wrote: > > > Yes, but the interesting thing is, that is do exactly the same like "mimeset > > -f program" > > > <snip some evidence> > > > > And mimeset do a lot with the program. On some programs the size becomes a > > little bit bigger and so. > > I haven't looked at the Tracker code, but I would guess that they both use > the same Roster calls to lookup a files type and then write it out. :-) In fact the BRoster::FindApp()/Launch() methods, which are certainly used by the Tracker, invoke a create_app_meta_mime() for application, and, if the MIME type of a file whose application shall be found needs to be sniffed, update_mime_info() is invoked for it. CU, Ingo