Bug in #! processing

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Sławek Żak wrote:
+> >> I like the bahavior of FreeBSD besides special
+> >>     treatment of # on the first line after #!. Allowing for comments on the
+> >>     first line is a strange excuse. Have you ever seen a script commenting on
+> >>     the interpreter execution or had a need to do so?
+> >
+> > No, but since this has been possible in FreeBSD for over 4.5 years, you
+> > can guarantee that someone is using it.
+> 
+>     What do you think of sysctl named say kern.exec_hash_compat (set to 1 by
+>     default) or kernel option (also set to old behavior) to `fix' the situation?

Adding sysctl to control this behaviour is the best we can get, IMHO.
I can commit this, with default value which keeps the current behvaiour,
but I don't like this name. We should find a name which starts at 'compat.'.
Any suggestions? compat.unix.exec_hash?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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