Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Nick Holloway (Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk)
28 Mar 1999 19:22:03 +0100

o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) writes:
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> >Ahem... Forgot to count ELF signature and headers, didn't you? Minimal
> >/bin/true being #!/bin/sh - 10 bytes (you'll need newline at the end).
>
> Nope. Zero bytes.
>
> $ sync > /tmp/true
> $ chmod +x /tmp/true
> $ if /tmp/true; then echo "True is true"; fi
> True is true

ObKernel: the kernel does not fall back to using /bin/sh to execute files

$ ls -l /tmp/true
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alfie alfie 0 Mar 28 19:13 /tmp/true
$ cat x.c
main () { execl("/tmp/true","true"); perror("true"); }
$ gcc x.c
$ ./a.out
true: Exec format error
$ 

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