Duh (was: Re: [Radiance-general] rpiece error)

Greg Ward gregoryjward at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 09:02:06 PST 2010


Weird.  Normally, image files and the like aren't "executable" -- you  
must have had that bit set on your file, somehow, and the OS  
interpreted the header as a bash script.  No wonder you had such a mess!

-Greg

> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
> Date: March 5, 2010 8:52:41 AM PST
>
> Problem solved. I had an *image* called "rpiece" in the current  
> working
> directory (and . in my search path). I'm not exactly sure what  
> causes that
> to spawn all these bash shells, but obviously my system was very  
> confused.
> Thanks for all the suggestions and the insights on case sensitivity.
>
> And thanks to Mark for his runsmp script (in the benchmark package),  
> which
> does a nice job of keeping my processors busy (it's hot under my  
> desk!).



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