Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:28:14 +0200 | From | "Martin v. Löwis" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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D. Hazelton wrote: > This is a bogus argument. You're comparing the way a _binary_ > executable works to the way an interpreted _text_ script works. > execve(), at least on my system, isn't capable of running a script - > if I want to do that from a program I have to tell execve() that it's > running /bin/sh and the script file is in the parameter list.
This being the linux-kernel list, I assume your system is Linux, no? Well, on Linux, execve *does* support script files. This is the whole point of my patch - I would not propose a kernel patch to improve this support if it weren't there in the first place.
> While I appreciate that the kernel is capable of performing complex > actions when execve runs into a file that is not an a.out or elf > binary I have yet to see a "binfmt script" option in the kernel > config files ever.
It's not a config option because it is always enabled. See fs/binfmt_script.c for details. It wasn't integrated into the binfmt system until I made it so some ten years ago, though.
> On the other hand, there is the "binfmt_misc" option, which does the > work that you seem to be looking for and can, AFAIK, be set to handle > both ASCII and UTF-8 scripts. Why add the complexity to the kernel > when it's not needed?
One shouldn't add complexity if its not needed. However, this patch does not add complexity. It is fairly trivial.
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