From: Eric Wong Date: 2013-04-06T08:01:20+09:00 Subject: [ANN] mahoro 0.4 - a Ruby interface to libmagic Mahoro - a Ruby interface to libmagic An interface to libmagic to determine file types using "magic" numbers. This can be used in place of calling the file(1) command in Ruby scripts. Shu-yu Guo is the original author but all maintenance is handled by Eric Wong nowadays. documentation: http://bogomips.org/mahoro/API source: git clone git://bogomips.org/mahoro.git cgit web viewer: http://bogomips.org/mahoro.git/ mailing list: mahoro@librelist.org (plain-text only, please) maintainer: Eric Wong libmagic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libmagic install: http://bogomips.org/mahoro/INSTALL Feel free to contact Eric Wong privately via plain-text email if you're not comfortable with the public mailing list. Changes since v0.3: All public API methods are now documented, using "ri" documentation (built during the RubyGems install) is recommended for users. Plain-text API documentation is also available online: http://bogomips.org/mahoro/API On Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, Mahoro now releases the GVL for all operations which may touch the filesystem. This allows several threads with thread-local Mahoro objects to simultaneously work on multiple files at once. Since libmagic is not thread-safe, neither is Mahoro (by default). An optional Mahoro::ThreadSafe module now exists for applications which may spawn many short-lived threads. Applications using long-lived threads and needing real concurrency should use thread-local Mahoro objects instead of the ThreadSafe module. Eric Wong (10): INSTALL: improve documentation for deb/rpm-based distros gemspec: cleanup and update rdoc options add RDoc documentation test: be more flexible with Mahoro::NONE matches release GVL if filesystem I/O is required Mahoro#file supports objects with #to_path support split out nogvl_compat header cleanup: make cMahoro an automatic variable add optional thread-safety module tree reorganization + various maint fixes -- Eric Wong