Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:59:43 -0500 | From | Jeff Mcadams <> | Subject | Re: binfmt_script and ^M |
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Also sprach Rik van Riel >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...
That only makes sense if: #!/bin/shasdf\n would also exec /bin/sh.
" " and \t are whitespace, \r is not whitespace. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - 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/
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