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

[Khimenko Victor]

In <[e-mail]> Alan Cox ([e-mail]) wrote:
>> 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

IMO it's better be CONSISTENT. Either
  1) argv[0] is always the same thing that was passed to execv
or
  2) argv[0] is always "realpath" to executable.

Since in case of "real binary" we doing 1) IMNSHO we should do this in case
of script as well...