Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:49:10 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Why is binfmt_misc not enough for you?
> For two reasons: for one, it has the overhead of yet another > exec call.
For an interpreted language this is surely irrelevant.
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> The other reason is availability: as an author of an UTF-8 > script, you would have to communicate to your users that they > need the right binfmt_misc wrapper installed (which they may > have to build first). While installing additional stuff to > run a single program is acceptable for large applications, > it is likely not for script files. To make the feature useful > in practice, it must be builtin.
That is a distribution problem. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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