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From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BUG in unshared programs on HP-UX
Message-ID: <1700@zen.co.uk>
Date: 23 Aug 89 12:30:06 GMT
References: <2450@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <2450@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> wendt@segovia.CS.ColoState.Edu
 (alan l wendt) writes:
>Unshared programs invariably fail to have enough room.

The manual entry for ld(1), under DEPENDENCIES (series 800) states:

  "Nonshareable, executable files generated with the -N option cannot
   be executed via exec(2).  Typically, -N is used when rebuilding
   the kernel."

The behaviour of all the shells ("[k]sh:  too big", "csh:  Not enough room")
is correct under this constraint, although why placing the program data
immediately after the text causes errno to be set to E2BIG I don't know.
In any event, it is not a bug.
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Frank Wales, Systems Manager,        [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank]
Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217