Re: RFS: gcin
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> writes:
> - I was told it is more portable (I once looked for confirmation with
> a little Google search but that was a while ago and I forgot the
> exact reasons that were mentioned).
Putting a space after #! is portable to systems where the kernel
implements "#! /" as a four-byte magic number for shell scripts. Such
systems are completely obsolete now and Debian would never run on one, but
that's why it will show up occasionally in documents about script
portability.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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