Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:47:02 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: executable archive
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Hi!

> Same problem with python (i'm just learning), and a collection of .class
> files for java. 

For java its called .jar.

> My first though would be to make a stub, and put the ar file in the data
> area of the process, something akind to self extracting zip files on
> dos/windoze.
> A couple of problems: 
> a) you can't "mount" the ar file to make it visible to the process as a
> part of it's file system view. ( Atleast not without intercepting a
> whole lot of libc calls) 

See uservfs.sf.net.

But intercepting those system calls would be better, portable to macOsX etc...

Or simply link those interpretters with uservfs; its going to be
usefull for other stuff, too.
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