Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message

[Jude DaShiell]

Interesting, this is happening with bash and so far lynx is the only 
program doing this.  Bash did have a recent update and has quite the bug 
colony some of them old enough to be called features.  The timer 
internal in bash is probably still not working after all of these years.

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, David Woolley wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 08:54:33
> From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message
>
> On 15/04/18 13:44, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >  I can also check slint and debian to find out if this is specific to
> >  archlinux and if so, probably the archlinux packages were built
> >  incorrectly.
>
> If it was built for the wrong architecture, it could cause problems, as the 
> low level code will try and run it with /bin/sh if it doesn't start with a 
> known prefix.  All recognized binary formats have unique prefixes, and a 
> prefix of "#!" indicates that a named interpreter, rather than the shell, is 
> to be run.
>
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