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Re: httpfs, tarfs --help
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Jeroen Dekkers |
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Re: httpfs, tarfs --help |
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Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:55:06 +0100 |
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:22:41AM -0800, James Morrison wrote:
> --- Adam Olsen <rhamph@d2dc.net> wrote:
> > There's two ways for an app to support gzipped files:
> > a) within the app itself, by recognising files with a .gz extension
>
> This is bad, extensions should not be trusted. Magic can
> be used to determine if a file is compressed, and if so what library
> function
> to call to decompress it. There probably should be a hurd library to
> do this
> stuff so at some point we would be able to run both gzipped binaries
> and bzip2'd
> binaries.
I hadn't thought about magic yet. Writing a library to check the types
and a program/translator which associates translators with different
types is a good way to do it. Running gzippped and bzip2'd binaries is
already supported in exec IIRC.
Jeroen Dekkers
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- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Adam Olsen, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Adam Olsen, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, James Morrison, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Adam Olsen, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help,
Jeroen Dekkers <=
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Moritz Schulte, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Adam Olsen, 2001/12/21
- Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21
Re: httpfs, tarfs --help, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/12/22