From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262016AbUBWUML (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262017AbUBWUML (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:12:11 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:2600 "EHLO zok.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262016AbUBWUMJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:12:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:12:05 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Jamie Lokier Cc: hjlipp@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux 2.6: shebang handling in fs/binfmt_script.c Message-Id: <20040223121205.2ef329fd.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040223142215.GB30321@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040216133418.GA4399@hobbes> <20040222020911.2c8ea5c6.pj@sgi.com> <20040222155410.GA3051@hobbes> <20040222125312.11749dfd.pj@sgi.com> <20040222225750.GA27402@mail.shareable.org> <20040222214457.6f8d2224.pj@sgi.com> <20040223142215.GB30321@mail.shareable.org> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Anyway that's irrelevant: the splitting change only affects shell _scripts_ Well, I wouldn't say 'irrelevant'. Some might claim that this question (what the major shell's do) is already known, but surely it does matter. The shells _do_ need to find the path to the script file in the argv[] passed to them, and the proposed change does alter the parsing of that argv[]. The splitting does not affect only the scripts. It also affects the argv[] array presented to the shells, which may or may not deal with such as we would like. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373