From: bas AT wn DOT com ("Bret A. Schuhmacher") Subject: Re: what did I miss? #!.... doesn't work in bash 8 Nov 1996 19:54:42 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Geoffrey Noer Original-cc: Graham Whaley , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199611012312.PAA07041@skaro.cygnus.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Geoffrey Noer wrote: > 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. > > I can try :-) > > This is functionality that would have to be added to the cygwin.dll. > It's not there now. > Why, then is there code in the current/newest bash shell source for execing the program found on the #! line? If this had been moved into the kernel, this code would be obsolete and removed. I'm no expert, but I'm not sure this is something that should be added to cgywin.dll. I think the bash shell needs another look. Rgds, Bret ______________________________________________________________________________ Bret A. Schuhmacher Email: bas AT wn DOT com Technical Director, WebNet Technologies WWW: http://www.wn.com Voice/Fax: (214) 821-0848 Pager: (214) 816-0283 If you didn't get caught, did you really do it? ______________________________________________________________________________ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".