#! (was Re: file attributes)

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Jun 28 10:49:18 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun27.170723.10630 at sco.COM> john at sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>To reiterate, I know no *clear* reason why #! should be in the kernel.

The article was a good summary of arguments against the #! implementation.
While useful, the hack indeed doesn't provide a clean solution to a
general problem; practically by definition, then, it is not properly part
of the system kernel.



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