BUG in ISC UNIX 2.2
Jack F. Vogel
jackv at turnkey.tcc.com
Tue Jul 3 01:51:59 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jun30.212356.1209 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>Although I can't find it documented anywhere, ISC has apparently added
>support for exec(2) interpretation of the "#!interpreter" line at
>the begining of a script file. This works pretty well until you give
>it a name that is longer than 18 bytes.
Conor, really, I am surprised at you :-}, not reading the release notes on
a new release! I quote from page 12:
The exec(2) system call has been enhanced to allow script files to
be interpreted by a shell (or command interpreter) of the writers
choice. To take advantage of this feature, a script must include
the line #! interpreter, where interpreter is any command processor,
such as /bin/csh...
In any case, thanks for the info on the related bug, have you informed ISC
of this other than assuming they track things posted here??
Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not my employer.
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Jack F. Vogel jackv at locus.com
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