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RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
- From: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw at agere dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <dgluss at marple-tech dot com>, <pjacklam at online dot no>, <chet at po dot cwru dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:15:44 -0500
- Subject: RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
If DG's assessment is correct:
> The problem looks to be that bash "helps out" the system
> by executing scripts beginning with #!. In the source for
> bash, look in execute_cmd.c, line 3369. Only one argument
> is allowed. So e.g. #!/usr/bin/env perl -w becomes
> "/usr/bin/env" "perl -w"
> If I make a patch for this, should it go to the cygwin list?
> Should it just go to gnu.bash.bug and leave it at that?
Then it's a BASH issue. Some flavors of UNIX do this in the
kernel. If this is the case for CYGWIN, then it is a CYGWIN
issue as well. Either way, it sounds like DG has a pretty
good handle on this issue.
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