On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:22:41AM -0800, James Morrison wrote: > --- Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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