Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:38:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:38:01 -0500 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:8196 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:38:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:02:34 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken? Message-ID: <20021206090234.GA1940@zaurus> References: <9633612287A@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 24 Hi! > > 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. Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself ? Pavel -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/