-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Peanut gallery question: Why not just always try these methods and catch > some format exception if they fail, proceeding to the next possible > decompressor (proceeding on to no decompressor)? > > That way if a file is called .GZ, it will still be handled properly; in > fact, all files would still be handled properly. And these formats > leave notes in the first few bytes of the file as to if they should be > tried, so it's not as if it would come at some performance cost. Interesting thought. Do all the decompressors throw an error if the input format isn't recognized? Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhOiDMACgkQqA4JVb61b9fixACfZLtxY20tXyZA5oLHTBSm5JPj ApQAnRsb6RkA2YKB5UXhXiEezMm1j1ZS =Y7ZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
