"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2280.1299459971.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > This reminds me. I should look into mime types one of these days to see > what the > appropriate way (if any) would be to put support for them in Phobos. It > would be > nice to not have to go by extension for the few programs that I have which > have > to worry about file type. >
I'm no unix expert, but my understanding is that mime types in the filesystem don't even exist at all, and that what it *really* does is use some complex black-box-ish algorithm that takes into account the first few bytes of the file, the extention, the exec flag, and god-knows-what-else to determine what type of file it is. Contrary to how people keep making it sound, mime type is *not* the determining factor (and cannot possibly be), but rather nothing more than the way the *result* of all that analysis is represented.