[16196] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.8: attachandrun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Aug 20 18:25:17 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:25:15 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Start Maple using "attachandrun".
What's wrong:
athena% attachandrun maple maple maple
attachandrun: failure to exec maple: Exec format error
Exit 3
What should have happened:
Maple should have run.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
athena% head -3 /mit/maple/bin/maple
: # Exec perl
eval 'exec perl -S $0 "$@"'
if $running_under_some_shell;
Whatever method "attachandrun" uses to exec files
dislikes the ":" line at the head of the Perl wrapper
scripts that Athena uses for launching many of its
third-party applications. (I tested /bin/sh's exec in a
few cases, and was able to exec to the wrapper script
without trouble.)
Testing showed that attachandrun failed on the wrapper
script on Irix, Solaris, and NetBSD platforms. I was
unable to find a "#!/bin/sh" line which includes the
text string "perl" that worked on all three platforms.
Starting the wrapper script with "#!/usr/athena/bin/perl"
causes attachandrun to work properly, but would require
changing the wrapper scripts in a lot of lockers.
Since users' shells can exec the wrapper scripts
successfully, I feel that attachandrun ought to be
able to do so as well.
