Re: RFP: shared filetype autodetection library

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:

> 4) Suffix matching is a useful but dangerous optimization.  People
>    have been known to accidentally save a file in 1 format with
>    another extension by accident.

As a great real-world example of this, I downloaded a tarball of mp3
files from Salon, yesterday.  It had a .m3u file in it that was actually
an AbiWord file that had not been exported to text correctly.

Cheers,
-Jonathan