Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:13:31 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: binfmt_script and ^M |
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Hi!
> > Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never > > has, and never will end a text line with '\r'. It's Microsoft junk > > that does that, a throwback to CP/M, a throwback to MDS/200. > > Yes, _we_ all know that. However, it's not really intuitive to the user > getting a 'No such file or directory' on a script he just created. Bash > doesn't say: > bash: testscript: Script interpreter not found > but bash says: > bash: testscript: No such file or directory > > Maybe we should create a new errno: EINTERPRETER or something like that and > let the kernel return that instead of ENOENT.
Agreen, EINTEPRETTER would be very nice, plus maybe EDYNLINKER. We already have 'level 3 stopped', so this should not hurt :-)). Pavel
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