From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22476 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2002 15:16:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22353 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 15:15:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alageremail1.agere.com) (192.19.192.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 15:15:50 -0000 Received: from rderelay.agere.com (rderelay.agere.com [135.15.172.48]) by alageremail1.agere.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g1DFE8G02647; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:14:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from almail.agere.com by rderelay.agere.com (8.9.3+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id KAA07839 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:15:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from PAI820G1006951 by almail.agere.com (8.9.3+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id KAA08446; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:15:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald S. Williams" To: Cc: , , Subject: RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <020213144737.AA61530.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00660.txt.bz2 If DG's assessment is correct: > 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? Then it's a BASH issue. Some flavors of UNIX do this in the kernel. If this is the case for CYGWIN, then it is a CYGWIN issue as well. Either way, it sounds like DG has a pretty good handle on this issue. -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:gsw@agere.com O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592 O- -- 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/