Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Fri Oct 24 14:52:00 GMT 2014
On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/2014 07:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Oct 24 06:05, John Wiersba wrote:
>>> I would have thought cygwin1.dll contains the code necessary to do this, like the linux kernel does.
>>
>> run.exe doesn't start the executable via a Cygwin function, but via a
>> Windows call. There's no chance for the DLL to handle shebangs.
>
> Of course, if you wanted to be nice, you could write a patch to run.exe
> that teaches it to read() the contents of a file that it is about to
> execute, and if it starts with a shebang…
I get that run.exe must do low-level Win32 API things in order to suppress the console window, which is why it is currently a native app, rather than a Cygwin app, but I don’t like the idea of reinventing execve(2) inside run.exe.
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