On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 06:18:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > Right now, dash gets this wrong: > > dash -c 'exec .'; echo $? > exec: 1: /: Permission denied > 2 > > And since you already have the code in dash to detect failure to 'exec' > a directory, you should be able to reuse that code when detecting > failure to run a directory as a script, as in 'dash .'. Thanks for the detailed investiagtion! If someone could send me a patch that does this without bloating dash too much then I can apply it without feeling too much guilt :) Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] [INPUT] Catch attempts to run a directory as a script
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- Subject: Re: [PATCH] [INPUT] Catch attempts to run a directory as a script
- From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 20:31:47 +0800
- Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>, Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx>, dash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Krzysztof A. Sobiecki" <sobkas@xxxxxxxxx>, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@xxxxxxxxx>
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