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

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/21/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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).
>
> --
> (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's
>  important to the thread.)
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.

I can't believe you guys are still discussing this. What's wrong with
`file $file` ?

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