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| author | Thomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk> | 2003-08-07 14:51:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk> | 2003-08-07 14:51:37 +0000 |
| commit | 5906e40cc98979dca9f6ca72de4eae61ae783e06 (patch) | |
| tree | bb31db0492367b196cb1dbab3a12f1928902d149 | |
| parent | 9b5c13d459721f32791786def714a60b658fe569 (diff) | |
| download | shared-mime-info-5906e40cc98979dca9f6ca72de4eae61ae783e06.tar.gz | |
* Added a section to the spec about the inode/* MIME types (suggested by
Jaap Karssenberg).
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| -rw-r--r-- | shared-mime-info-spec.xml | 18 |
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ shared-mime-info Thomas Leonard <tal00r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Version 0.12 (07-Apr-2003) * Added *.pm and *.al globs for PERL (Jaap Karssenberg). + +* Added a section to the spec about the inode/* MIME types (suggested by + Jaap Karssenberg). Version 0.11 (17-Apr-2003) diff --git a/shared-mime-info-spec.xml b/shared-mime-info-spec.xml index da0ec043..0028e81a 100644 --- a/shared-mime-info-spec.xml +++ b/shared-mime-info-spec.xml @@ -759,6 +759,24 @@ the user can often rename the file to fix the problem. </para> </sect2> <sect2> + <title>Non-regular files</title> + <para> +Sometimes it is useful to assign MIME types to other objects in the filesystem, +such as directories, sockets and device files. This could be useful when looking up +an icon for a type, or for providing a textual description of one of these objects. +The media type 'inode' is provided for this purpose, with the following types corresponding +to the standard types of object found in a Unix filesystem: + </para> + <simplelist> + <member>inode/blockdevice</member> + <member>inode/chardevice</member> + <member>inode/directory</member> + <member>inode/fifo</member> + <member>inode/socket</member> + <member>inode/symlink</member> + </simplelist> + </sect2> + <sect2> <title>Security implications</title> <para> The system described in this document is intended to allow different programs |