Re: binfmt_script and ^M

Pozsar Balazs
2001-03-05T21:07:13Z

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Robert Read wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:58:52PM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > And what does POSIX say about "#!/bin/sh\r" ?
> > In other words: should the kernel look for the interpreter between the !
> > and the newline, or [the first space or newline] or the first whitespace?
> >
> > IMHO, the first whitespace. Which means that "#!/bin/sh\r" should invoke
> > /bin/sh. (though it is junk).
>
> The line terminator, '\n', is what terminates the interpreter. White
> space (in this case, only ' ' and '\t') is used to seperate the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> arguments to the interpreter.

The last little tiny thing that bothers me: why? Why only ' ' and '\t' _in
this case_? As someone mentioned, even isspace() returns whitespace.

A possible answer (that i can think of), is that those ar the whitespaces,
which are in IFS (as said previously), taking out us from kernel-space
into userspace. But imho we shouldn't define another set whitespace for
this case, can't we just use what isspace() says?

(okay, I'm not for this '\r' thingy, I just want to see the reasons.)

--
Balazs Pozsar.