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Most TODOs live in the TODO section of doc/file.man (i.e. file(1)).
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They are more visible there, so please add any further TODOs to that
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file, not here. More speculative material can live here.
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(This change was made when Reuben Thomas noticed that all the bugs
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listed in the BUGS section of the man page had been fixed!)
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It would be nice to simplify file considerably. For example,
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reimplement the apprentice and non-pattern magic methods in Python,
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and compile the magic patterns to a giant regex (or something similar;
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maybe using Ragel (http://www.complang.org/ragel/)) so that only a
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small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is typically only
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required for soft magic, not the more detailed information given by
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hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that hplip, which is
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BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python.
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Read the kerberos magic entry for more ideas.
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Write a string merger to make magic entry sizes dynamic.
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Strings will be converted to offsets from the string table.
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