Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync

[llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker)]

> 
> >Michael Hohmuth writes:
> >
> >> > 6. and now the sticky text/fragmentation megapatch...  does a few things:
> >> 
> >> > . execv..() frees the old process memory before allocating the new ones,
> >> > and so no longer leaves holes in your memory map.  this took a few
> >> > ugly hacks but i think its worth it :)  the only visible change should
> >> > be when exec'ing a damaged binary the process gets killed, fixing that
> >> > would require reading executables twice.
> >> 
> >> 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.

	Jason