17 Jan
2011
17 Jan
'11
9:51 p.m.
Jeremy C. Reed scripsit:
This seems to indicate the idea was not developed
separately at
Berkeley.
Thanks for doing the digging. What this shows is that dmr came up with
the idea of putting shebang processing into the kernel, but it does not
show where shebangs as a shell feature came from. I still think that
has to be the CSRG.
It was introduced into BSD by April 1981. For 2BSD
(2.8) it was added by
Dec. 16, 1981 when built with MENLO_SCRIPT defined (but I don't see that
documented or defined).
Thanks again for clarifying the ordering here: I had assumed that 2.8
was older than 4.0.
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