From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: what did I miss? #!.... doesn't work in bash
1 Nov 1996 16:34:37 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <327A3119@charlotte.crossprod.co.uk> from "Graham Whaley" at Nov 1, 96 04:25:00 pm
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Graham Whaley taps on the keyboard:
> 
>   Err, I thought that the decoding of a '#!' line had moved into the kernel 
> on *IX, and was not a bash/shell/user level thing?.  You'll have to excuse 
> me if I'm wrong, I've not really delved into ther kernel for a number of 
> years.
>   If this were the case though then I guess it's down to the cygwin.dll exec 
> functions to do the test and execute.
>   Just my thoughts (and I'd be interested if anybody has an AUTHORITATIVE 
> answer to this),

I can try :-)

This is functionality that would have to be added to the cygwin.dll.
It's not there now.

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Geoffrey Noer
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