  Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types  >> Some more
questions. Is it possible to recognise an html file by a couple
of >> magic numbers at the beginning? Most html starts <html> or
<HTML>, but it is >> not certian that it will look like this.
Another thought is the possiblilty of >> running perl scripts
without the bang path, but then how would the shell tell >> it
is a perl script. >Uh, for SGML documents, how about looking at
the <!doctype ...> ? >Anyway, I suggested even to use the file
utility, so you can make use of the >magic database.  This is
getting a bit off the original thread...  IMHO, any magic type
of database, is a "hacked" solution.  What I really would like
is a filesystem that can store a mime-type for every file...
That way no magic databases are required. In addition, the
kernel could be configured to assign default mime-types for
different file extensions, or something.  This would mean
instead of having lots of different programs trying to determine
file types (each with a very diffe