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SubjectRe: Java in OS?
On  5 May 96 at 8:14, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> In linux.dev.kernel, article <199605031507.QAA26975@snowcrash.cymru.net>,
> Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> writes:
> > > How would you specify where to find the interpreter? Compiled Java
> > > doesn't have comments, so you couldn't use the #!-style approach.
> >
> > You can add one to the front, you can also use something like the elksemu
> > module that spots elks binaries by magic number, rewrites them to
> > allegedly have #! and passes them to the shell interpreter.
> >
> Or you can add a new loader. Use binfmt_scriptshell.c as the example to
> follow.
>
> NB: Why does trying to exec a script with an interpreter that is itself a
> script cause an error? Specifically, EPERM? I think that should be allowed.
> (Yes I know, other Unixes frequently don't allow this, but that's no
> excuse.)
>
> /tmp/foo:
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Did it"
>
> /tmp/bar:
> #!/tmp/foo
> # nothing interesting
>
> % chmod +x /tmp/foo /tmp/bar
> % /tmp/bar
> bash: ./bar: Permission denied
> %

Maybe because of
/tmp/bar:
#!/tmp/bar

(loop in the kernel)

>
> Hmmm...
>
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