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authorChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2012-11-01 04:31:53 +0000
committerChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2012-11-01 04:31:53 +0000
commit7a561d4a259cac3e94388c2817a42510726ff303 (patch)
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parenta40cfed391d3836e6661bae2689a687730d5e510 (diff)
downloadfile-git-7a561d4a259cac3e94388c2817a42510726ff303.tar.gz
mention a few todo's
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $File: file.man,v 1.99 2012/04/14 10:22:06 rrt Exp $
+.\" $File: file.man,v 1.100 2012/10/25 15:34:02 christos Exp $
.Dd October 25, 2012
.Dt FILE __CSECTION__
.Os
@@ -581,6 +581,24 @@ Combine script searches and add a way to map executable names to MIME
types (e.g. have a magic value for !:mime which causes the resulting
string to be looked up in a table). This would avoid adding the same
magic repeatedly for each new hash-bang interpreter.
+.Pp
+Fix
+.Dq name
+and
+.Dq use
+to check for consistency at compile time (duplicate
+.Dq name ,
+.Dq use
+pointing to undefined
+.Dq name
+).
+Make
+.Dq name
+/
+.Dq use
+more efficient by keeping a sorted list of names.
+Special-case ^ to flip endianness in the parser so that it does not
+have to be escaped, and document it.
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