Bug in #! processing - "pear broken on current"

[Roman Neuhauser]

# des at des.no / 2005-06-10 09:27:19 +0200:
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at sigpipe.cz> writes:
> > The pear people have hacked around the other OS's limitations.
> >
> > This change makes FreeBSD lose one small but fine competitive
> > advantage over other unix-like systems. Pity.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Here's what pear looks like on Debian:
> #!/usr/bin/php4 -Cq
> 
> SuSE uses a shell wrapper which ends in
> exec $PHP -C -q $INCARG -d output_buffering=1 $INCDIR/pearcmd.php "$@"
> 
> Fedora has a similar shell wrapper:
> exec $PHP -C -q $INCARG -d output_buffering=1 $INCDIR/pearcmd.php "$@"
> 
> so we're certainly not the only ones who need to modify pear.
> 
> Take a look at this:
> 
> des at cat ~% uname -a
> Linux cat 2.6.8-24.14-default #1 Tue Mar 29 09:27:43 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

    That simply shows that all these *Linux* distros don't handle
    shebang lines well.

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