Comment # 7
on bug 9054
from Guy Harris
(In reply to comment #6)
> Thanks for the commit Guy. I felt this was a good idea but didn't have time
> to work on it myself.
>
> Since magic numbers take precedence over file extensions, there is still a
> risk that non-magic files may be incorrectly recognized by magic number
> checks due to coincidental matches, but hopefully this should be rare.
Given that we ran the magic-number checks before the non-magic-number checks
before this, that's more of a case of "that problem remains" rather than "that
problem was introduced", so my inclination, for now, is to keep it simple(r)
and worry about that only if we get a report of such a mismatch.
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