Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:03:33 +0100
From:	Ivo Timmermans <irt@cistron.nl>
To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: binfmt_script and ^M

When running a script (perl in this case) that has DOS-style newlines
(\r\n), Linux 2.4.2 can't find an interpreter because it doesn't
recognize the \r.  The following patch should fix this (untested).

Please Cc me on replies, I'm not on this list.  Thanks.


--- binfmt_script.c~	Mon Feb 26 17:42:09 2001
+++ binfmt_script.c	Tue Feb 27 13:39:47 2001
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 	bprm->buf[BINPRM_BUF_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
 	if ((cp = strchr(bprm->buf, '\n')) == NULL)
 		cp = bprm->buf+BINPRM_BUF_SIZE-1;
+	if (cp - 1 == '\r')
+	  cp--;
 	*cp = '\0';
 	while (cp > bprm->buf) {
 		cp--;

-- 
Ivo Timmermans
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