I suspect so he could run the Pascal P-machine.
On Jan 6, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Richard Salz
<rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 10:42 PM Brian Walden <tuhs(a)cuzuco.com> wrote:
not the kernel. This had traditionally been done after the exec() failed
then shell ould run "sh argv[0]", but with two shells this was now a problem.
It seems the kernel did that;
http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/2/exec since argv[-1] was
altered.
I read somewhere, can't recall where, that Ken Thompson suggested "#!"
being added to the kernel during his sabbatical there.