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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts 
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   of "Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:18:33 +0200." <432E6649.1070408@v.loewis.de> 
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:49:10 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Why is binfmt_misc not enough for you?

> For two reasons: for one, it has the overhead of yet another
> exec call.

For an interpreted language this is surely irrelevant.

[...]

> The other reason is availability: as an author of an UTF-8
> script, you would have to communicate to your users that they
> need the right binfmt_misc wrapper installed (which they may
> have to build first). While installing additional stuff to
> run a single program is acceptable for large applications,
> it is likely not for script files. To make the feature useful
> in practice, it must be builtin.

That is a distribution problem.
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