From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 3 11:51:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23804 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA23797 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA24996 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:51:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA06159; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:32:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:32:03 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: java support under FreeBSD. References: <199703031616.IAA03678@squirrel.tgsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703031616.IAA03678@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Mar 3, 1997 08:16:15 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mark thompson wrote: > Back in the dark ages, the shell would spawn shell scripts manually when > exec failed because they weren't executeables. It still does this. But execve()able scripts have their advantages as well. How are you gonna tell the shell about Perl scripts, Tcl scripts, wish scripts, csh scripts (if you really think you need them), etc. Do you wanna update the list of interpreters for all shells? Also, you can't use such a script as a login `shell'. You can use a #! interpreted executable there, however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)