From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757728AbYLFBFG (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:05:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754917AbYLFBEz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:04:55 -0500 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.184]:36875 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754680AbYLFBEy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:04:54 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=jJ3+qJ6tPVUiSiSgp+AlEmseUkPoWbvhm6s5BBa8r5q1XBa3aOwQ6CpbJaIOB8UfnQ LW6TKmqIQV9Y6c2RVX9H4MtG8PLsTdjhFeyTNyGOKeDX18gzKS7jwEpj/HDp8hzc4cfK BtFBmeoReaZokMijJ5b83SzX9UupL5yg43dIc= Message-ID: <2375c9f90812051704oa80cafeif17909e332178d6e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:04:52 +0000 From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?=" To: Geralt Subject: Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2375c9f90812030756r5b8840e1u3980ddca8df27a6b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Geralt wrote: > 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 [1]), but I was specifically refering to linux in this case > and why it handles the shebang arguments as one big string and not as > single arguments for the application. I can't think out any strong reasons, maybe only becasue Linux developers prefer that approach. Thanks.