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From: jmcc@m5.vi.ri.cmu.edu (Jason Mcmullan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 30 Mar 1996 20:05:50 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science
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I have a point of disagreement with Terry Lambetr here...
Terry's major argument about the "files as directories" based file
filesystem is shell hashing - but why? Either you make the file
at the top of the executable's file structure the binary for the delivered
architecture, or you simply use a shell script like this:
---- cut here -----
#!/bin/sh
OS=`uname`
OSREV=`uname -r`
case "$OS" in
Linux) if [ -f /lib/ld-linux.so.1 ]; then
BINARY=linux-elf
else if [ -f /lib/ld.so.1 ]; then
BINARY=linux-a.out
else
BINARY=not_found
fi; fi; fi
;;
[other OS/bintype cases]
esac
exec $0/$BINARY
---- cut here ---
Is this so hard????
--
Copyright 1995 Jason McMullan; all rights reserved.
Me: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ezrec
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