Re: #! and argv[0]: the path is removed before invoking the interpreter

[Kevin Layer]

>> > I believe the behavior of #! on Solaris goes all the way back to BSD
>> > in of the early 80's.  FreeBSD 3.0 behaves as Solaris does.
>> > 
>> > I hope this considered a bug.  If there willingness to take a patch for
>> > it, I might work on making the fix.
>> 
>> Im not sure about bug, but its certainly worth behaving the same way as
>> everyone else in this case if its appropriate to do so. Take a look at
>> the fs/binfmt* code and sure - send a patch
>> 

I've been running with this for a while, and it works like a charm:

diff -c ./fs/binfmt_script.c,0 ./fs/binfmt_script.c
*** ./fs/binfmt_script.c,0      Thu Aug 20 14:32:48 1998
--- ./fs/binfmt_script.c        Wed Feb 16 13:30:04 2000
***************
*** 47,54 ****
--- 47,56 ----
        i_name_start = i_name = cp;
        i_arg = 0;
        for ( ; *cp && (*cp != ' ') && (*cp != '\t'); cp++) {
+ #if 0
                if (*cp == '/')
                        i_name = cp+1;
+ #endif
        }
        while ((*cp == ' ') || (*cp == '\t'))
                *cp++ = '\0';