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

[Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:44:57PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > I believe the question was "which shell expects the name in argv[2]
> 
> The question is more like: examine each shell's argument parsing code to
> determine which ones will or will not be affected by this.  For a change
> like this, someone needs to actually look at the code for each major
> shell, and verify their reading of the code with a little experimentation.

I still don't understand your argument... If there is a shell having
those problems, nobody would use something like

#!/shell -foo -bar

And the "old"

#!/shell -foo

or

#!/shell

still work as usual (if there are no whitespace characters in the
parameter).

Regards,

	Hansjoerg Lipp