On Sunday 06 March 2011 22:09:22 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "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.
I thought that the first few bytes of the file _were_ the mime type. Certainly, from what I've seen, extension has _no_ effect on most programs. Konqueror certainly acts like it does everything by mime type - file associations are set that way. - Jonathan M Davis