"David G. Lawrence" <dg_at_dglawrence.com> writes: >> What circular reference? Could you elaborate? The algorithm goes like this: >> >> 1. skip all space till #! > > The #! is required to be in the first two bytes of the file, so there > can't be any spaces before it. Oh. Thus in following script: thirst<zaks>(1950)% cat tst.sh #!/bin/no-such-file ps -lp $$ Which generates following output. thirst<zaks>(1949)% ./tst.sh /tmp UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1001 31645 31278 0 8 0 1636 1024 wait S+ p5 0:00.00 sh ./tst.sh the interpreter is assumed to be /bin/sh. That's fine with me. > I wrote the code you guys are talking about, although I had nothing to do > with the commit in rev 1.21. I don't have an opinion on that other than > it's been this way in FreeBSD for a long time and I share Ceri's concern > that changing it will affect some people. By no means I wish to force anyone to fix their scripts for 5.3 release. Period. I would only like to use Allegro CL in scripts, which unfortunately considers -#! valid in argument list and acts accordingly on all platforms besides FreeBSD. Some (in)compatibility shim would be great. Please! :) /S -- S³awek ¯ak : UNIX Systems Administrator : PTC Sp. zooReceived on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 12:23:18 UTC
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