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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:54:00 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:31:03PM -0800, David Gluss wrote:
>The problem looks to be that bash "helps out" the system by executing
>scripts beginning with #!.  In the source for bash, look in
>execute_cmd.c, line 3369.  Only one argument is allowed.  So e.g.
>#!/usr/bin/env perl -w becomes "/usr/bin/env" "perl -w" If I make a
>patch for this, should it go to the cygwin list?  Should it just go to
>gnu.bash.bug and leave it at that?

I think you're misinterpreting the problem.  If it works the same way
on linux and on cygwin, then there is nothing to fix.

cgf

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