Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Tim]

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 10:50 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> The idea sounds nice, until you start thinking about the amount of
> code you are adding to the file save process. If the mime-type is
> set, then it is no big deal - a small addition to the SE Linux code.
> If it isn't set, then you have to try and determine the mime-type.
> This is better handled by a user-space program then as part of the
> file system module. This is especially true because the list of
> mime-types in not fixed. The added processing time would probably
> not be too bad for a single file, but what happens when you are
> doing a restore from a backup media that does not support ACLs? 

As a quick idea, how about:  A generic file save requester, that all
applications would use, that would be a part of this process (ensuring
applications saved data in a useful way, but not adding the overhead to
things that just write to disc - such as backup programs).

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