Re: [PATCH] Linux 2.6: shebang handling in fs/binfmt_script.c

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

> Therefore the shell behaviour is not relevant, except for such scripts.

So we agree that the shell behaviour is relevant for such scripts.

I don't think I missed a thing, and I think we are in agreement, except
on the relative value of this change, versus the risk of breaking a
shell.

If a shell is coded to allow for at most one option before the script
file path, and if a script is presented to it with a shebang option
having an embedded space, then ... oops.

You're just discounting the risk of either such scripts or of such
stupidly coded shells more than I am discounting such, and you are
valuing the usefulness of the proposed change more than I value it.

I accept that there is no shell, nor script, on your system that would
break, and to be honest, I can't find any such shell, or script, on my
system either.

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