Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
4 Dec 2002 12:00:53 -0800


Followup to: <9633612287A@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
By author: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> And because of I was not able to find anything in POSIX which would say
> that we should do split on spaces (not that I found that we should not),
> I vote for leaving current behavior in Linux, and fixing perl manpage
> (and eventually FreeBSD, if anyone is interested) instead.
>

Classic catch-22: POSIX won't standardize it because of lack of
consistency between UNIX implementations, although everyone pretty
much agrees it would be a desirable feature to add to the standard.

-hpa

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