Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes



> If a shellscript or binary has .jpg extension and we rely on extension, 
> then image viewer is started, which will complain or crash. The file 
> will *NOT* get executed. Is this so hard to understand?? File extensions 
> are *NO* security risk!!!

This is not how Nautilus does it now. It uses the file name extension to
determine the icon to be displayed, and - then - uses sniffing when the
user clicks on the file.

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo altern org>



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