Thinking out loud (re: file(1) plugins

[Christos Zoulas]

On Aug 4,  1:15pm, kim at tac.nyc.ny.us (Kimmo Suominen) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Thinking out loud (re: file(1) plugins

| Opening files from $HOME (or any environment variable) is such a can of
| worms that is it really worth it?
| 
| Using a hardcoded directory for the .so files is much more straight
| forward when it comes to security.

I agree with kim here. The file plugin idea is nice though. BTW, the
next thing I want to experiment with, is sorting the file magic entries.

What I am considering is sorting them by magic "length" as the primary
key and offset as the secondary.

christos