Bug#488665: closed by Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> (Re: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: cannot pass multiple arguments in #! line)

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Excerpts from Debian Bug Tracking System's message of Mon Sep 12 04:06:03 +0200 2011:
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> which was filed against the linux-2.6 package:
> 
> #488665: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: cannot pass multiple arguments in #! line
> 
> It has been closed by Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
> 
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> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > When running script which has multiple arguments in the #! line the
> > arguments are joined into one. This breaks scripts that require multiple
> > arguments passed to the interpreter.
> [...]
> > Observed output of the script:
> > ./test|-a -b -c|./test.sh
> >
> > Expected outout of the script:
> > ./test|-a|-b|-c|./test.sh
> 
> Sorry for the long silence.  This is a longstanding behavior and,
> roughly speaking, by design.  See [1] and the surrounding thread for
> some context.
> 
> I actually wouldn't mind if someone raises this upstream again.  I
> don't think it's worth tracking in Debian, though, hence closing the
> bug.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/182403/focus=184600

It comes at somewhat unfortunate time kernel.org being down and taking
quite some time to get back up.

Thanks for  the reference.
Interesting and somewhat sad reading :-s

Michal