Re: "What is the !@#$ pathname of Perl on *this* machine?"

Dale R. Worley (worley@ariadne.com)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:26:25 -0500


From: Systemkennung Linux <linux@informatik.uni-koblenz.de>

How about implementing some kind of "program interpreter" which
- analogous to what /lib/ld.so.1 does for ELF executables and libs -
the process of searching the path, security issues, /etc/ld.so.cache
style cache for faster searching the patch etc? This approach would
be more flexible than a kernelspace implementation though slighly
less performant.

One could piggyback that onto the kerneld mechanism, I think. But it
is not clear how one would use it. Do you have any ideas in mind?

Dale

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