Hi!
> > Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never
> > has, and never will end a text line with '\r'. It's Microsoft junk
> > that does that, a throwback to CP/M, a throwback to MDS/200.
>
> Yes, _we_ all know that. However, it's not really intuitive to the user
> getting a 'No such file or directory' on a script he just created. Bash
> doesn't say:
> bash: testscript: Script interpreter not found
> but bash says:
> bash: testscript: No such file or directory
>
> Maybe we should create a new errno: EINTERPRETER or something like that and
> let the kernel return that instead of ENOENT.
Agreen, EINTEPRETTER would be very nice, plus maybe EDYNLINKER. We
already have 'level 3 stopped', so this should not hurt :-)).
Pavel
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