Re: binfmt_script and ^M

John Kodis (kodis@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:55:12 -0500


On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:22AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never
> has, and never will end a text line with '\r'.

Unix does not, never has, and never will end a text line with ' ' (a
space character) or with \t (a tab character). Yet if I begin a shell
script with '#!/bin/sh ' or '#!/bin/sh\t', the training white space is
striped and /bin/sh gets exec'd. Since \r has no special significance
to Unix, I'd expect it to be treated the same as any other whitespace
character -- it should be striped, and /bin/sh should get exec'd.

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John Kodis <kodis@acm.org>
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