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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:26:06 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?
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Hi!

> > Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself
> 
> We could, but it would in practice mean doing an extra exec() for each
> executable.  This seems undesirable.

Only for executables that need argument spliting... For such scripts I
guess we can get handle the overhead.

								Pavel

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