Re: Possible speed enhancement

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

on., 24.09.2008 kl. 11.24 +0200, skrev Xavier Bestel:
> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 10:10 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:01 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >  
> > > > That some other apps choose not to sniff such files makes them faster
> > > > for /usr/lib and /usr/bin, but they miss showing file types on some
> > > > files. This is a design decision for nautilus, which is not mainly
> > > > designed to read /usr/bin, but rather to manage users normal files
> > > > (which generally have extensions).
> > > 
> > > Maybe the x bit should count as a '.exe' extension (sort of) ?
> > 
> > this would create false positives on FAT volumes, where most of the
> > files have a -x bit unless you change the default umask used to mount
> > them.
> 
> Then don't do it on FAT.
> 
There's still a lot of different types of executables in there. Various
scripts like perl, csh, bash, etc and probably others I haven't thought
about.

Cheers
Kjartan