Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-08-29 12:52:39) > Justus Winter, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:41:47 +0200, a écrit : > > > At least to show flexibility of the exec server. The difference between > > > the BFD code and the gzip/bzip2 code is that the latter makes the whole > > > exec code complex, while the gzip/bzip2 support only has a couple of > > > hooks, so even if the feature doesn't seem so appealing, the maintenance > > > cost is light. > > > > But couldn't the same be achieved by installing an unzipping storeio > > translator on the zipped executable? It is more explicit, but I'd > > argue that this is a good thing in this case and shows the flexibility > > of the Hurd as a whole. > > That better separates matters indeed. Not duplicating the deflate code > is a sign of better factorization :) > > What do people think about it? That can mean, with nsmux, to exec, say, > foo.gz,,gunzip for instance, instead of guessing.
Umm, I just tested this, and it doesn't work :/ I guess b/c storeio claims that it is a character device: % ls -l /tmp/hello.unzipped crwxr-xr-x 1 teythoon teythoon 0, 0 Aug 29 13:01 /tmp/hello.unzipped % /tmp/hello.unzipped zsh: permission denied: /tmp/hello.unzipped % /lib/ld.so.1 /tmp/hello.unzipped /tmp/hello.unzipped: Must be started as a translator Justus
