Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Sep 17, 2005, at 18:31:33, D. Hazelton wrote:
> That, and my point remains that the kernel should know absolutely  
> nothing about how to execute a text file - the kernel should return  
> an error to the extent of "I don't know what to do with this file"  
> to the shell that tries to execute it, and the shell can then check  
> for the sh_bang. I do admit that this change would break a lot of  
> existing code, so I'll leave the argument to the experts.

No, that would not work at all.  We have a very nice system to allow  
set-uid scripts (Specifically, I like my nice secure taint-mode set- 
uid perl scripts).  If you did this, they would break completely, not  
to mention _add_ all sorts of unsolvable race conditions to the few  
ways of working around such a lack of SUID scripts.  Also, it means  
that I can't just "mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.real ; vim /sbin/init" to  
do a simple wrapper around the init program, I would need to write a  
compiled C program to do all sorts of fragile hackish things like  
calling a script /sbin/init.sh.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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