[Starkit] auto_execok and Starpacks

[Jeff Hobbs]

Joey Mukherjee wrote:
> The thing is the functions no longer match the documentation if the 
> object in question is a starpack; so to me, that seems wrong.
> 
> Rather than having a new set of commands to manipulate the starpacks, 
> old commands no longer work unless you are working in the 
> confines of a starpack.

Feel free to correct me with doc refs, but I believe you are
misreading them.  You can't read one page at a time, you have
to understand the full implications of the functionality.
Sure, 'file' ops do their stated file ops, but when you use
VFS to mount something, what was a file can become a directory,
and that is also according to docs.  Everything is working
exactly as it should.

> Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of being able to have a self 
> mounting file system, but I feel old code should not be broken, 
> especially if no workarounds are possible.

Workarounds are possible, but I'm not even sure how you had
working code that broke.  Did you always expect to exec
yourself?

  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos