make importing SHELL
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Tue Oct 4 00:14:12 AEST 1988
I said that $SHELL is a poor substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
In article <8616 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>So far as I know, no shell uses the SHELL environment variable
>to determine what shell to use when "exec"ing a shell script.
>
>SHELL is used when setting up a new layer or window, etc.
This seems to be correct. I investigated and found no evidence that
SHELL is used to decide which shell should be used to interpret a
script.
It seems that System V has no substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
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