Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:45:09 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: #! and argv[0]: the path is removed before invoking the interpreter |
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In <E12LBjK-0000Xp-00@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: >> I believe the behavior of #! on Solaris goes all the way back to BSD >> in of the early 80's. FreeBSD 3.0 behaves as Solaris does. >> >> I hope this considered a bug. If there willingness to take a patch for >> it, I might work on making the fix.
> Im not sure about bug, but its certainly worth behaving the same way as > everyone else in this case if its appropriate to do so. Take a look at > the fs/binfmt* code and sure - send a patch
IMO it's better be CONSISTENT. Either 1) argv[0] is always the same thing that was passed to execv or 2) argv[0] is always "realpath" to executable.
Since in case of "real binary" we doing 1) IMNSHO we should do this in case of script as well...
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