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From: "Edvardsen Kåre" <kare.edvardsen@uit.no>
To: "moss@cs.umass.edu" <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Cc: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with execution of binary file
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320396611.5480.196.camel@kare-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB30E21.3090707@cs.umass.edu>


> On 11/3/2011 4:56 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>         Ok, so here's one thing about bash: to get it to
>         run an *executable* (as opposed to a *script*),
>         you need to say "bash -c FLEXPART_GFORTRAN".
>         You might try strace on that. In addition to the
>         objdump suggestion.
> 
> I have a moment to expand on this a little. The
> 80-byte read we saw was bash looking at the
> beginning of what it that was supposed to be a
> script (not a binary) and seeing if it really
> appeared to be a script. I did not look like a
> script, so bash gave up. (It checks whether the
> first line is all printable characters or white
> space.)
> 
> Best -- Eliot Moss
> 

Hmm, wonder why bash would interpret it as a script. Anyway, I will get
back to you later with output from strace and objdump.

Cheers,
kåre

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 12:21 Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-03 12:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-03 13:22 ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-03 14:11   ` Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-03 19:54     ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-03 21:57 ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-04  1:54   ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-04  8:51   ` Edvardsen Kåre [this message]
2011-11-04 10:50     ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-04 12:34       ` Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-04 17:56         ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-04 18:00           ` Eliot Moss
2011-11-04 18:21             ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-05  9:52               ` David Sastre
     [not found] <1320325271.5480.163.camel@kare-desktop>
2011-11-03 13:19 ` Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-07  9:55 Edvardsen Kåre
2011-11-07 19:26 ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-08 10:02   ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-08 10:08     ` Mark Geisert
2011-11-08 11:22 Edvardsen Kåre

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