From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 04:33:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13581 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from os.inf.tu-dresden.de (os.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA13574 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by os.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA27474 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:24:24 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA14488 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:07:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12247; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:31:26 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:31:26 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: java support under FreeBSD. References: <199703040550.VAA26081@freefall.freebsd.org> <199703041926.LAA24593@dirac.phys.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703041926.LAA24593@dirac.phys.washington.edu>; from William R. Somsky on Mar 4, 1997 11:26:04 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As William R. Somsky wrote: > Hmm... Although it would be useful, I'd argue that any path/extention/etc > expansion does _not_ belong in the kernel's implementation of 'exec'. How are you going to handle /sbin/init then? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)