Relative speed of Bourne vs. C Shells - C Shell is faster.

[Spencer W. Thomas]

In article <162 at hadron.UUCP> jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>Near as I can tell, the first line only works if you are running the
>C shell under 4BSD, which interprets the #! business.

This is a common misconception, that has been "cleared up" many times on
this newsgroup.  It is NOT THE CSH that interperts the #! business, but
the kernel.  (I have also heard claims that execvp does it.  This is not
true either.)  Again: the KERNEL interprets the #! "magic number", NOT
THE SHELL.

(Will this be the last time? (Of course not!))
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