Re: MIME extensions

[Michael Rogers <m rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>At the moment, file extensions are used. Hopefully, they will be
>replaced with the actual file type, but before that happens, Gmc needs a
>way to deal with network mounts intellegently (and turn off things like
>"file" for a network mount).

You only need to check the file types of the files whose icons are
visible, which won't be more than 20 or so at a time, so all the worries
about 10,000 open() calls are a bit excessive. Would 20 open() calls over
a network really be a problem?


Michael Rogers