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Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing execut
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Richard Braun |
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Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables |
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Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:15:24 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:52:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Justus Winter, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:41:47 +0200, a écrit :
> > But couldn't the same be achieved by installing an unzipping storeio
> > translator on the zipped executable? It is more explicit, but I'd
> > argue that this is a good thing in this case and shows the flexibility
> > of the Hurd as a whole.
>
> That better separates matters indeed. Not duplicating the deflate code
> is a sign of better factorization :)
>
> What do people think about it? That can mean, with nsmux, to exec, say,
> foo.gz,,gunzip for instance, instead of guessing.
A better example would be providing an exec server for old a.out static
binaries for example. But for compression, what Justus describes looks
a lot more hurdish to me.
--
Richard Braun
- Cleanups for the exec server, Justus Winter, 2013/08/15
- [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Justus Winter, 2013/08/15
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Samuel Thibault, 2013/08/28
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Justus Winter, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Samuel Thibault, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Justus Winter, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Samuel Thibault, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Justus Winter, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Samuel Thibault, 2013/08/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables,
Richard Braun <=
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables, Roland McGrath, 2013/08/29
[PATCH 3/5] exec: Remove #ifdef 0-out code doing nothing., Justus Winter, 2013/08/15
[PATCH 5/5] exec: remove the BFD code, Justus Winter, 2013/08/15
[PATCH 4/5] exec: Remove #ifdef 0-out code for user specified exec servers., Justus Winter, 2013/08/15