Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:01:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: phil@cs.strath.ac.uk (Philip Murray) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: execve won't load interpreters Message-ID: <199601182301.AAA29484@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9601181518.aa25321@bell.cs.strath.ac.uk> from "Philip Murray" at Jan 18, 96 03:18:47 pm
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As Philip Murray wrote:
>
> I have been trying to set up some text filters for lpd (I even used
> one from the handbook) and discovered that lpd couldn't execve scripts.
EXECVE(2) UNIX Programmer's Manual EXECVE(2)
NAME
execve - execute a file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
execve(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
DESCRIPTION
...
An interpreter file begins with a line of the form:
#! interpreter [arg]
When an interpreter file is execve()'d, the system execve()'s runs the
specified interpreter. If the optional arg is specified, it becomes the
first argument to the interpreter, and the name of the originally
execve()'d file becomes the second argument; otherwise, the name of the
...
--
cheers, J"org
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