17 Jan
2011
17 Jan
'11
3:37 a.m.
Sven Mascheck scripsit:
It might be too much to ask the kernel to do, especially on
non-traditional Posix systems like z/OS.
who (or what system) do you mean was the 2nd?
That was hypothetical.
Trying again: "It's unlikely that two different people chose #! as the
executable-script mark independently."
With /bin/sh you actually meant any shell calling
"itself"?
Otherwise I'm afraid, I have some difficulties following you.
I mean that whereas (t)csh uses /bin/sh to run scripts with no
shebangs, the Posix-compatible shells execute scripts with no
shebangs directly. And this is Bad.
IMHO the Posix
sh definition should be extended so that all
shells claiming Posix-compliance should do shebangs.
Shells themselves should implement it, not the kernel? There was a working group resolution to standardize
#!, which didn't
make it, http://www.opengroup.org/platform/resolutions/bwg2000-004.html
you could chime in
I see the problem now: a portable awk script, for example, can't assume
that the Posix awk is in /usr/bin/awk, so "#!/usr/bin/awk" might get the
wrong awk. So the feature is not worth standardizing for Posix.
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