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This is something an application can handle fine ala magic. If you are referring to file browsing, then the browser, too, can examine the first few bytes of a file to determine the file type. Not to knock the idea of having that all information pre-indexed to expedite a file-system GUI or other app, but it's not really necessary. Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > In message <199810052000.QAA26886@valhalla.cc.columbia.edu>, "Johan M= > Andersen > " writes: I think it would be nice if I could do something to temporarily conside= r a certain file to have a certain type.=A0 In reiserfs style (as I understand it),= this might look something like display random-image.gif/text text being a pseudofile (I would call it a member function) whose conte= nts references random-image's but whose returned filetype is text, so that = display,=A0 a generic displayer, will display the image as an ascii dump, which can b= e very useful (esp with FITS files, etc.) Justin "Logic" Randall Programmer, Networking Ion Storm 214-953-0101 x205 > -----Original Message----- > From: Feuer [SMTP:feuer@his.com] > Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 8:20 PM > To: Linux Kernel > Subject: Re: need filetype field in directory entries > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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