[Nix-dev] Make wrappers be binaries instead of shell scripts?

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 11/18/2014 01:32 PM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to make the application wrapper
> scripts generated by makeWrapper be binaries that do the environment
> massaging and config in binary code before exec() ing the wrapped program.
> 
> The advantages would be that the wrapper itself loads very fast since all
> the shell init and shell parsing is skipped. You also get precise control
> over the execv() call or other desired factors.
> 
> The disadvantages are that you can't read what a wrapper does and the
> wrapper file is bigger (about 4KB in my tests for a simple execv()).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Wout.
> 
> 

As long as it's optional: debugging wrappers does happen and if it's
binary then there's no hope.


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Mateusz K.