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| author | Renato Botelho <renato@netgate.com> | 2016-12-14 13:59:40 -0200 |
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| committer | Renato Botelho <renato@netgate.com> | 2016-12-14 13:59:40 -0200 |
| commit | cc9fac304cafadab4656653aa1a62fdad74b4e94 (patch) | |
| tree | 43fee446af0c829986548dcbe6862d3ac31bae2e /contrib/file/TODO | |
| parent | 812767d2bb4e201b4f826fd31924d2cafb8fe0ae (diff) | |
| parent | 6d3cdf0ab519f1b7bad6bd132eda48242f0ff7c8 (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/stable/10' into devel
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diff --git a/contrib/file/TODO b/contrib/file/TODO index 5c2ed49..78890cf 100644 --- a/contrib/file/TODO +++ b/contrib/file/TODO @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ file, not here. More speculative material can live here. listed in the BUGS section of the man page had been fixed!) --- - It would be nice to simplify file considerably. For example, reimplement the apprentice and non-pattern magic methods in Python, and compile the magic patterns to a giant regex (or something similar; @@ -15,8 +14,23 @@ small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is typically only required for soft magic, not the more detailed information given by hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that hplip, which is BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python. - +--- Read the kerberos magic entry for more ideas. - +--- Write a string merger to make magic entry sizes dynamic. Strings will be converted to offsets from the string table. +--- +Programming language support, we can introduce the concept of a group +of rules where n rules need to match before the rule is positive. This +could require structural changes to the matching code :-( + +0 group 2 # require 2 matches +# rule 1 +>0 .... +... +# rule 2 +>0 .... +... + +christos + |
