From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30388 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2002 20:57:48 -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 30174 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2002 20:57:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail48.fg.online.no) (148.122.161.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 20:57:40 -0000 Received: from FENRIS (ti100720a001-0229.dialup.online.no [130.67.133.229]) by mail48.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03606; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:57:37 +0100 (MET) To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line? References: <8z9y4kbm.fsf@online.no> <20020212185310.GF26027@redhat.com> <3C6995F0.50400@ece.gatech.edu> Organization: Private From: pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) In-Reply-To: <3C6995F0.50400@ece.gatech.edu> (Charles Wilson's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:23:44 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:03:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01004.txt.bz2 Charles Wilson wrote: > Peter J. Acklam wrote: > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > Peter J. Acklam wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > why does Cygwin look for the file "perl -w". No UNIX I > > > > have worked on would parse the shebang line that way. > > > > > > > Because... we're mean. > > > > > I'm new here so I don't know who you are, but I hope one can > > expect more informative responses than this gibberish. > > When Chris says "because we're mean" it *usually* means that the > original post was either > a) rude > b) accusatory > c) demanding > AND that the original poster made an incorrect analysis of their > problem, then complained about the non-existant problem, and > blamed the cygwin developers for being such idiots to make that > (non-existant) mistake. That's fair enough, and common on USENET news groups, but I really can't see how my posting falls into any of the categories you mention. Oh well, no big deal. Peter -- People say I'm indifferent, but I don't care. -- 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/