[PATCH] Treat empty files like text files

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:51, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday 2003 May 01 16:27, David Faure wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:01, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >   The attached tiny patch makes sure that (local) empty files are treated
> > > as text ones.
> >
> > Why that, given that there is an application/x-zerosize mimetype for this
> > very purpose?
> 
> Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Does it work for remote files, when querying with
> KMimeType::findByURL?

No, since that method only knows the URL and doesn't stat nor download the file.

Accurate mimetype determination for remote files can only be done with
MimetypeJob *KIO::mimetype( url );

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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