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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?
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By author:    "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> And because of I was not able to find anything in POSIX which would say
> that we should do split on spaces (not that I found that we should not), 
> I vote for leaving current behavior in Linux, and fixing perl manpage 
> (and eventually FreeBSD, if anyone is interested) instead.
> 

Classic catch-22: POSIX won't standardize it because of lack of
consistency between UNIX implementations, although everyone pretty
much agrees it would be a desirable feature to add to the standard.

	-hpa
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