A vision for Parrot
Slaven Rezic
slaven.rezic at berlin.de
Wed Nov 6 03:13:03 EST 2002
Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2 at earthlink.net> writes:
> Frodo Morris wrote:
> >
> > Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
> > > Frodo Morris wrote:
[...]
>
> > Why not leave it running, so that any Perl/Python/Tcl/Ruby/Java/sh/
> > BASIC/whatever code can get to it immediately?
>
> Ignoring the problem of compiling those languages down to parrot
> bytecode...
>
> How should the kernel detect that a parrot-bytecode file is, in fact,
> parrot bytecode?
>
> For normal exe files, there's the execute bit and some standard headers.
> For normal scripts, there's the execute bit and the #! line.
At least on *BSD, /sys/kern/imgact_*.c control which executable types
are allowed. There are imgact_aout.c, imgact_elf.c, imgact_gzip.c and
imgact_shell.c, and maybe one could add an imgact_parrot.c?
Regards,
Slaven
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