From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@...>
Date: 2002-11-06T17:44:43+09:00
Subject: Re: A vision for Parrot

Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net> writes:

> Frodo Morris wrote:
> > 
> > Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
> > > Frodo Morris wrote:
[...]
> 
> > Why not leave it running, so that any Perl/Python/Tcl/Ruby/Java/sh/
> > BASIC/whatever code can get to it immediately?
> 
> Ignoring the problem of compiling those languages down to parrot
> bytecode...
> 
> How should the kernel detect that a parrot-bytecode file is, in fact,
> parrot bytecode?
> 
> For normal exe files, there's the execute bit and some standard headers.
> For normal scripts, there's the execute bit and the #! line.

At least on *BSD, /sys/kern/imgact_*.c control which executable types
are allowed. There are imgact_aout.c, imgact_elf.c, imgact_gzip.c and
imgact_shell.c, and maybe one could add an imgact_parrot.c?

Regards,
	Slaven

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