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

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Yeah, I don't know how it could have been set as executable either, and I
already deleted the file so I can't even know for sure, but that must have
been the issue. Good times.

On 3/5/10 10:02 AM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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