Re: recognizing a file by scanning it

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> >     
> > > But before continuing, i would like to discover if anyone else is
> > > working on something similar, to avoid (more?) duplicate effort.
> > >   
> > >       
> > magic-mode-alist was added early in the development of Emacs 22. All
> > entries were removed from it shortly before Emacs 22.1 was released
> > due to security issues that were raised during pretest.
> >     
>
> I don't recall that there was any security issues.  Rather, these
> entries were moved to magic-fallback-mode-alist, so that they have a
> lower priority than filename autodetection.
>   

The image entries were all dropped completely because of the supposed 
security issues.