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Re: Dynamic loading progress


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:14:31 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

>> >> I use the .so extension to know whether a file is a binary module or
>> >> elisp (compiled or source).
>> > You cannot know that by the extension alone, anyway.
>> Of course, we can: if the extension says ".el" or ".elc" we know it's
>> Elisp (compiled or not), and if it says ".dll", ".so" or something like
>> that, we know it's a binary module.
> That's until you bump into a maliciously named file.

I don't think it matters: the same problem can happen by playing with
file's contents rather than file names.


        Stefan



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