Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:29:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:27:55 -0500 Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.146]:14325 "EHLO imladris.rielhome.conectiva") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:26:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:25:13 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel To: John Kodis cc: "Richard B. Johnson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M In-Reply-To: <20010305095512.A30787@tux.gsfc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, John Kodis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:22AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never > > has, and never will end a text line with '\r'. > > Unix does not, never has, and never will end a text line with ' ' (a > space character) or with \t (a tab character). Yet if I begin a shell > script with '#!/bin/sh ' or '#!/bin/sh\t', the training white space is > striped and /bin/sh gets exec'd. Since \r has no special significance > to Unix, I'd expect it to be treated the same as any other whitespace > character -- it should be striped, and /bin/sh should get exec'd. Makes sense, IMHO... Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ - 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/