Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 1999 22:57:20 -0800 (PST) | From | "Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo" <> | Subject | Re: #!perl - alternative path to script interpreters - patch to 2.2 |
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> A typical post-newbie writes: > > > How about this: > > > > $ ./script > > bash: ./script: No such file or directory > > $ head -1 script > > #!/usr/bin/foo > > $ foo script > > Running script... > > **GROAN** > > > This is a userland problem, not a kernel issue. > > You (and many others) state that like a religious belief. I suppose I > would choose that over the newbie idea that every feature needs to be > in the kernel, but they are equally mindless ideas. > > It turns out that the proper solution (binfmt_misc) is already in the > kernel where it belongs. Few people would seriously accept the need > to specify an interpreter before each script.
There is no *NEED* to specify the interpreter before each script. The fact is, script interpreter locations are getting to be fairly standard anymore, and it is only a few oddball scripts that would need this anyway. But this is most definitely NOT a kernel issue. Perhaps you could use binfmt_misc, or perhaps you could convince the vendor of your program to follow the progression of Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) to see what decisions may be made by that committee.
The point is, there are a lot of poorly written/broken/misassumption making programs/scripts/utilities out there, and it is up to the developer of said program/script/utility to fix it, NOT hack the kernel to make things that are broken work.
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