From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754637AbYLFFlg (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:41:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750761AbYLFFl0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:41:26 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:35302 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbYLFFl0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:41:26 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: =?UTF-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= Cc: Geralt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT." <2375c9f90812051704oa80cafeif17909e332178d6e@mail.gmail.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <2375c9f90812030756r5b8840e1u3980ddca8df27a6b@mail.gmail.com> <2375c9f90812051704oa80cafeif17909e332178d6e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1228542083_5654P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:23 -0500 Message-ID: <10860.1228542083@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1228542083_5654P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT, Am=E9rico Wang said: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Geralt wr= ote: > > Hello, > > > > I should have anticipated this objection :-). I'm aware that this is > > not consistent among Unix operating systems (you can find more about > > it here =5B1=5D), but I was specifically refering to linux in this ca= se > > and why it handles the shebang arguments as one big string and not as= > > single arguments for the application. >=20 > I can't think out any strong reasons, maybe only becasue Linux develope= rs > prefer that approach. And of course, =22whitespace=22 is a somewhat fungible concept. 'man bas= h' and read about =24IFS. --==_Exmh_1228542083_5654P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJOhCDcC3lWbTT17ARAmcFAJ9JmN2aRBWHJRIzA9BaH1YB4ml8UgCdGB2G ZHl9QB0xBFBqW4534M3/9lU= =XDNk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1228542083_5654P--