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- Subject: Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 18:28:41 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <9406171441.AA01870@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu> from "Jason Baker" at Jun 17, 94 10:41:13 am
- From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Jason Baker writes:
-
- > > >> Well, that's fine with me, but I don't know whether this "non-posixish"
- > > >> behaviour is tolerable by all others? I guess so... as it effectively
- > > >> makes "damaged executable" equivalent to "executable crashed immediately
- > > >> after it has been run".
-
- > I don't know how shells actually handle interpreter files, but
- > one way would be to do an exec..(), and if it has an invalid format
- > check if it should be piped to an interpreter.
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- You're correct; actually, even the MiNT library handles scripts that
- way (I just checked). I guess that means that we cannot use Juergens
- current memory frag patch...?
-
- Michael
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