From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] binfmt_script: interpreted interpreter doesn't work
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:19:03 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209152119.g8FLJ37W000666@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020915220651.C642@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> from "Ingo Oeser" at Sep 15, 2002 10:06:51 PM
> > This may well not be bug, rather an intended feature, but please enlighten
> > me why the following doesn't work:
> >
> > I have two scripts:
> > /home/pozsy/a:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo "Hello from a!"
> >
> > /home/pozsy/b:
> > #!/home/pozsy/a
> > echo "hello from b!"
> >
> > Both of them has +x permissions.
> > But I cannot execute the /home/pozsy/b script:
> >
> > Isn't this "indirection" allowed?
The whole #!/foo/bar notation seems to be very mis-understood these days, it is not just notation chosen at random to be an indicator of the interpreter for the rest of the script - a good explaination can be found at faqs.org:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-16.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-15 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-15 17:15 Pozsar Balazs
2002-09-15 19:05 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-09-15 19:14 ` Pozsar Balazs
2002-09-15 20:06 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-09-15 21:04 ` Pozsar Balazs
2002-09-15 21:18 ` Mark Veltzer
2002-09-15 21:19 ` jbradford [this message]
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2002-09-15 19:13 ` Pozsar Balazs
2002-09-15 19:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-09-15 21:00 ` Pozsar Balazs
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