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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:13:31 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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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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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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