On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Pocket wrote: > On 12/8/23 17:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > cc(1) looks at the file extension to decide what kind of content each > > named argument file is expected to contain.
> No it looks for a suffix So Debian files have "suffixes" and Windows files have "extensions", and they're identical in form and function, but you use different labels for them? OK then. > rename a jpeg to farts, linux still knows it is a jpeg Why would the *kernel* know any such thing? Kernels do not care about graphical file types.
