Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line? References: <00a201c1b430$5217b5c0$6600a8c0@cherry> <20020213015400.GI28002@redhat.com> <20020221031131.GA1784@redhat.com> Organization: Private From: pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:46:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020221031131.GA1784@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:11:31 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 33 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Peter J. Acklam wrote: > > Since the behaviour is different when the line is in the > > shebang line, it has to be documented somewhere. > > AFAIK, it isn't documented anywhere except in the code. I don't > know where it would be documented, actually. This obviously > isn't an issue with /usr/bin/env. Ok. I'm not sure either. I know that Solaris has an intro(1) manual page which describes general command behaviour, standard option parsing, etc. I guess that might be a suitable place, but cygwin has no such manual page. > Where did you read about the behavior in "all UNIXes I work on"? > We should probably document it in a similar place for cygwin. That turned out to be an incorrect assumption on my part. I have worked with many UNIX flavours, and assumed that I had been using this syntax on all of them, but it turned out to be that I had only used it on Solaris where this syntax actually works. > We'd certainly appreciate a patch to our documentation. Just > send it to cygwin@cygwin.com for review. I'm not sure where it really ought to be documented. :-/ Peter -- People say I'm indifferent, but I don't care. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/