[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Re: Bug#350962: amavisd-new: cab files not detected

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Don't know what would be best. For loose (short, general) patterns this
> may be dangerous. For quite specific patterns it's probably alright.
> So far there were hardly any problem of that sorts, so I'm somewhat
> reluctant to change what works.

I see.  BTW, is there a reason for not embedding file(1) into amavisd-new,
through libmagic? Modern file(1) is not much more than a wrapper around it
anyway, and that would save a lot of forks and exec() and pipe work.

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