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Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync

To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT Mailer)
Subject: Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync
From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 18:28:41 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: <9406171441.AA01870@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu> from "Jason Baker" at Jun 17, 94 10:41:13 am
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

Jason Baker writes:

> > >> 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.

You're correct; actually, even the MiNT library handles scripts that
way (I just checked).  I guess that means that we cannot use Juergens
current memory frag patch...?

Michael
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References:
- Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync
  - From: llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker)

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