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From: John Kodis <kodis@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:36:29AM -0700, Jeff Coy wrote:

> '#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M' works without any special handling; the link is
> not needed:

This is the main reason that I think that the kernel should treat \r
as just another whitespace character: it's what most shells do, it's
what most users expect, and it's the least surprising behavior.

-- 
John Kodis <kodis@acm.org>
Phone: 301-286-7376
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