#! loader convention

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr15.232541.23205 at beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld at cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>I believe that the convention of interpreting #! comments in
>"scripts" is built in the loader for BSD. Does anyone know
>if any such mechanism exists at the same level in System V ?

It's handled by code in the kernel (part of the exec() system call).
SVR4 is supposed to support this.