> On 11/3/2011 4:56 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Ok, so here's one thing about bash: to get it to > run an *executable* (as opposed to a *script*), > you need to say "bash -c FLEXPART_GFORTRAN". > You might try strace on that. In addition to the > objdump suggestion. > > I have a moment to expand on this a little. The > 80-byte read we saw was bash looking at the > beginning of what it that was supposed to be a > script (not a binary) and seeing if it really > appeared to be a script. I did not look like a > script, so bash gave up. (It checks whether the > first line is all printable characters or white > space.) > > Best -- Eliot Moss >
Hmm, wonder why bash would interpret it as a script. Anyway, I will get back to you later with output from strace and objdump. Cheers, kåre