17 Jan
2011
17 Jan
'11
9:47 p.m.
Warner Losh scripsit:
The alternatives are worse.
You're making my point for me.
On a sysIII system, you had the situation where
scripts would be
executed by whatever your shell. So if you put a script on the system,
you had to make sure everybody used csh and write it in csh, or you had
to make sure nobody did and write it in /bin/sh.
Right.
The current situation says that 'you must
opt-in' to a different shell,
which leads to more predictable behavior.
Unfortunately not. The current situation is that when a shell sees a
shebang-free script, it decides whether it is Posix enough to execute
that script. So ash, bash, dash, ksh, zsh will all run shebang-free
scripts themselves, whereas csh, tcsh will defer to /bin/sh.
What I am arguing for is that *all* shells should defer to /bin/sh
to execute shebang-free scripts. As things stand, the behavior of a
shebang-free script depends on which shell is trying to run it, whereas
it should only depend (says I) on the identity of /bin/sh.
Later, #! processing moved into the kernel so that
interpreters would
execute things directly.
Yes, and that's a Good Thing.
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