Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:29:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:29:41 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:60940 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:28:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3DF536FB.8040506@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:36:11 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken? References: <9633612287A@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <20021206090234.GA1940@zaurus> <3DF4DEC0.3030800@zytor.com> <20021209182605. GA22747@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1039480856.12051.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3DF53549.9080403@zytor.com> <1039482671.12051.24.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 18 Alan Cox wrote: > > I don't see how you can do otherwise. The very definition of > "whitespace" is locale specific. Throwing it at the target as one string > lets the kernel stay out of locales, languages, policy and other parsing > horrors. Splitting it has to be done properly or its a non reversible > operation and tools can't correct the kernel screwups > In theory I agree with you. I'm just wondering what is the most practical. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/