Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Jason Baker writes:

> > >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.

 that still works, the header is still checked first (scripts have
a different magic).
> 
> 	Jason
 cheers
	Juergen
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