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From: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:55:40 -0500
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I did a little research, and Unix #! handling is all over
the spectrum, so any Unix portability argument goes out
the window. Other than tricks involving /bin/sh, the best
you can hope for is "#!/usr/bin/env PROG".

It would be a worthwhile exercise to see if enabling full
argument parsing breaks anything (i.e., find out if this
is a win-win feature), although this is hardly likely to
be on anyone's priority list soon.

-Jerry

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