Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:53:46AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 11:51, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Hold on, how do you know that something is a "binary" ? What if,
for
>>> example, it's an image bitmap? In the general case it's not
possible
>>> to tell if something is source or binary.
>> At least ELF files could be found out.
> So could Windows binaries (executables, DLLs, C# blobs) and Java JARs.
File isn't very good at detecting java code, and it only see jar as Zip
archive, and .class file as data. But using the extension + the fact
that it is a zip archive may be a safe bet.
The fact that it's a JAR doesn't tell you it has any precompiled code in
it: some JARs don't. By all means do this for ELF, but let's be sensible.
Andrew.