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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:49:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: #! incompatible -- binfmt_script.c broken?
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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.

Most people would also expect " and ' to work, and $FOO to work
:-(. So I believe keeping it simple is right.
								Pavel
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