Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman | Date | 29 Mar 1999 07:37:00 GMT |
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In article <7dls0b$uq2$1@alfie.demon.co.uk>, Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >ObKernel: the kernel does not fall back to using /bin/sh to execute files
Indeed.
A zero-length /bin/true does not work reliably, and never has. That's why it's not zero-length any more (not on any modern system I know of, anyway). You need to have the magic "#!/bin/sh" part to make it be reliably recognized as a shell script.
However, making it do anything but a simple "exit 0" is horrible. Anybody who really thinks /bin/true should report a version number and a help string (or even a copyright notice) needs to get his head examined.
Yes, the FSF coding style says it should do it. But you should never let rules overrule common sense - if you do, you end up doing stupid things (this is _especially_ true of the FSF codingstyle - see the kernel Documentation/CodingStyle about some other issues).
Linus
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