Re: Java in OS?

Mikko Ala-Fossi (malafoss@cc.hut.fi)
Sun, 5 May 1996 13:28:02 +0300 (EET DST)


On Fri, 3 May 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > How would you specify where to find the interpreter? Compiled Java
> > doesn't have comments, so you couldn't use the #!-style approach.

> You can add one to the front, you can also use something like the elksemu
> module that spots elks binaries by magic number, rewrites them to
> allegedly have #! and passes them to the shell interpreter.

Why can't we just patch binfmt_script.c so, that it could be
configured to recognice some magics and then fetch file to the
magic-specific interpreter?

-maf