Re: binfmt_script and ^M

John Kodis
2001-03-05T14:55:36Z

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:22AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never
> has, and never will end a text line with '\r'.

Unix does not, never has, and never will end a text line with ' ' (a
space character) or with \t (a tab character). Yet if I begin a shell
script with '#!/bin/sh ' or '#!/bin/sh\t', the training white space is
striped and /bin/sh gets exec'd. Since \r has no special significance
to Unix, I'd expect it to be treated the same as any other whitespace
character -- it should be striped, and /bin/sh should get exec'd.

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