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| author | Lorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry> | 2017-09-02 08:54:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Lorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry> | 2017-09-02 08:54:31 +0000 |
| commit | 10429269fbeb9442be4c5592b9111ccedbfefd0d (patch) | |
| tree | ec492f5b26d71445da74668b4c967621e9ebc556 /TODO | |
| parent | 670c2bbcffe873a2b8589ed140c12e7923ef20c0 (diff) | |
| download | file-master.tar.gz | |
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@@ -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; @@ -15,5 +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 + |