/usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?

Gerald S. Williams gsw@agere.com
Wed Feb 13 07:16:00 GMT 2002


If DG's assessment is correct:

> The problem looks to be that bash "helps out" the system
> by executing scripts beginning with #!.  In the source for
> bash, look in execute_cmd.c, line 3369.  Only one argument
> is allowed.  So e.g. #!/usr/bin/env perl -w becomes
> "/usr/bin/env" "perl -w"
> If I make a patch for this, should it go to the cygwin list?
> Should it just go to gnu.bash.bug and leave it at that?

Then it's a BASH issue. Some flavors of UNIX do this in the
kernel. If this is the case for CYGWIN, then it is a CYGWIN
issue as well. Either way, it sounds like DG has a pretty
good handle on this issue.

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