From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMidv-0006k5-6w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:08:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMidr-0006it-AT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:08:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMidq-0006ij-JP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:08:23 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMidq-0006Ay-3r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:08:22 -0400 Message-ID: <46C824B2.1040300@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:08:34 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P) References: <21867471.1187283941478.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml26.mgt.cox.net> <46C5975A.6070906@qumranet.com> <5F34873A-05BE-4D91-8590-93898C7755CA@df.lth.se> <46C81D0A.8010009@qumranet.com> <99222E0B-B4B8-4D5A-A557-1A9CF113E9E7@jump-ing.de> In-Reply-To: <99222E0B-B4B8-4D5A-A557-1A9CF113E9E7@jump-ing.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Hitter Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 19.08.2007 um 12:35 schrieb Avi Kivity: > > >> - this deviates from standard Unix (and Windows) practice. >> Arguably the OS X way is superior, but qemu is perhaps not the best >> vehicle to introduce it to other OSes. >> > > NeXTstep introduced this into the Unix world and GNUstep uses it > today. So, there's prior art. > > Nothing on my machine uses it today, as far as I can tell. (I don't oppose this use in Linux -- I think it's an excellent way to package apps -- but I'm not sure qemu should be the first app to do this. It needs buy-in from distros) ((but we're actually talking about something slightly different; packaging data vs packaging apps)) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function