Re: GLib file magics

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> writes:

> > > gnome-vfs-mime-magic.c:
> > > -       closely tied to file io (even so for the mime specification)
> > 
> > This is lame, and we are planning to add versions of the interfaces
> > that can work on in-memory buffers (and tell you how much a prefix you
> > need to do all the magic tests, or have some kind of callback setup).
> 
> You've let Tim confuse you. Either that or this is actually a thread
> from several months ago that has just now arrived in my inbox. Anyway,
> gnome-vfs has let you work on in-memory buffers for a few months now,
> and also has a read/seek callback setup so you can mime sniff things
> that you don't necessarily have in memory all at once.
> 

I was foolish to trust Tim. My apologies, since I should have known
this work had already been done.

 - Maciej