Bug in #! processing
Sławek Żak
zaks at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl
Thu Sep 30 05:05:26 PDT 2004
Ryan Sommers <ryans at gamersimpact.com> writes:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>
>> That seems wrong too. #! shouldn't be magic anywhere other than at the
>>
>>beginning of a file.
>>
>>
> I haven't looked at the code yet, on my list, but I'm guessing this was done to
> avoid a possible circular reference.
What circular reference? Could you elaborate? The algorithm goes like this:
1. skip all space till #!
2. skip #! and read path for the interpreter
3. find and split arguments
4. invoke intepreter with it's path at argv[0], arguments at subsequent
positions and append path to the script at the end.
That's it, modulo : and no interpreter path at all in the script as legacy
which is a special case anyway.
/S
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