Re: Bug in #! processing

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
<<On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:21:54 +0100, Ceri Davies <ceri_at_submonkey.net> said:

> Good, I'm not losing my eyesight then.  In theory this means that we're
> free to do whatever we want, as the commit log for revision 1.21 of
> imgact_shell.c suggests.

Just to clear there air here: POSIX does not specify, and by design
and intention has never specified, the "#! hack" or any other means
for making scripts directly executable.

-GAWollman
Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 13:50:41 UTC

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