Re: [address@hidden: Re: Type-in programs using BASH]

[Ryan Cunningham]

And that is exactly what I mean---running a separate program. Sorry for any confusion.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:36:37AM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote:
> I mean that the program would be loaded in the same manner in which Bash would execute any other object-code program that isn't loaded /into/ Bash as a builtin, like "ls", "su", and "dirname", all from GNU Coreutils.

Bash does not "load" external programs like ls.  It executes them
using execve().  (See shell_execve() in execute_cmd.c.)

If you're proposing some scenario where a user types a bunch of
raw object code on a keyboard, and then it gets saved to a file on
disk, and chmod is used to give the file execute permissions, and
then bash runs execve() on the resulting file, then I don't think
any reasonable interpretation could consider this "loading a library
of object code" as opposed to "running a separate program".

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Ryan Cunningham