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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?
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Followup to:  <20021209182605.GA22747@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
By author:    Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi!
> 
> > > Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself
> > 
> > We could, but it would in practice mean doing an extra exec() for each
> > executable.  This seems undesirable.
> 
> Only for executables that need argument spliting... For such scripts I
> guess we can get handle the overhead.
> 

We probably can, but a better question is really: what are the
semantics that users expect?  Given that Unices are by and large
inconsistent, we should pick the behaviour that makes sense to the
most people.  I suspect that most people would expect whitespace
partition.

	-hpa
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