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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:02:34 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?
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Hi!

> > And because of I was not able to find anything in POSIX which would say
> > that we should do split on spaces (not that I found that we should not), 
> > I vote for leaving current behavior in Linux, and fixing perl manpage 
> > (and eventually FreeBSD, if anyone is interested) instead.
> > 
> 
> Classic catch-22: POSIX won't standardize it because of lack of
> consistency between UNIX implementations, although everyone pretty
> much agrees it would be a desirable feature to add to the standard.

Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself
?
				Pavel
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