Re: RFS: gcin
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:32:23PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 00:04 +0100, Florent Rougon wrote:
> <anip>
> [Re space between shebang and the interpreter path]
> > - 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).
> <snip>
>
> The requirement for "#! /" was documented in 4.1BSD but the
> implementation never really required it - compare
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/exec.2.html and
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/sys1.c.html
>
> (Found via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) )
Hmm... interesting.
Please read full story
The '#!'-magic, details about the shebang mechanism on various Unix
flavours
at http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
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