Bug 22634

Summary:	files named "Core" but with text content are incorrectly recognized as mimetype "application/x-core"
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Andreas Pakulat <apaku>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	faure
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Andreas Pakulat 2009-07-06 08:45:11 UTC

The current glob-rule for any files named "core" to be recognized as "application/x-core" creates problems for text files named "Core" or "CoreFoo". This is particularly bad as C++ headers these days are often named without file extension. 

Not sure how to best fix this, basically a combination of "name==core" and "magic that detects 'ELF' at the start of the file" would be needed...

Comment 1 David Faure 2009-08-18 06:38:35 UTC

Proposed solution sent to the xdg list: case-sensitive="true".

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-10-06 04:41:48 UTC

Fixed in recent xdgmime and shared-mime-info. I added a test case for those in the repo.

* tests/list: Add test case for core vs. Core files
(Closes: #22634)

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