Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:05:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:05:18 -0500 Received: from janeway.cistron.net ([195.64.65.23]:35844 "EHLO janeway.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:05:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:03:33 +0100 From: Ivo Timmermans To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: binfmt_script and ^M Message-ID: <20010227140333.C20415@cistron.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When running a script (perl in this case) that has DOS-style newlines (\r\n), Linux 2.4.2 can't find an interpreter because it doesn't recognize the \r. The following patch should fix this (untested). Please Cc me on replies, I'm not on this list. Thanks. --- binfmt_script.c~ Mon Feb 26 17:42:09 2001 +++ binfmt_script.c Tue Feb 27 13:39:47 2001 @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ bprm->buf[BINPRM_BUF_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; if ((cp = strchr(bprm->buf, '\n')) == NULL) cp = bprm->buf+BINPRM_BUF_SIZE-1; + if (cp - 1 == '\r') + cp--; *cp = '\0'; while (cp > bprm->buf) { cp--; -- Ivo Timmermans - 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/