Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

["Pedro M." <pmacv telefonica net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xavier Bestel" <xavier bestel free fr>
To: "Soeren Sandmann" <sandmann daimi au dk>
Cc: <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach



Le mar 13/01/2004 à 20:00, Soeren Sandmann a écrit :

> The problem is that you need a correct answer to the question "did
> this file change since last time?". And there is no way to get that
> without reading the file, as far as I know.

Or something similar to md5 checksum