Bug in #! processing
Sławek Żak
zaks at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl
Thu Sep 30 04:59:51 PDT 2004
Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:47:06PM +0200, S?awek ?ak wrote:
[...]
>> You should speel buggy as 'POSIX' in this case I guess.
> You're actually guessing though, right? I can't find this in the
> standard; if you know it's there then I'd appreciate a reference.
No reference on this. Vague memories of brokedness only.
[...]
>> This behavior is mandated by POSIX which, as I reckon, allows passing of
>> only the first argument to the interpreter.
>
> Are you guessing again?
Affirmative.
> I believe that the FreeBSD behaviour is closer to "correct" than
> anything else we're seeing in this thread. I should be able to specify
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w -0
>
> or whatever without having everything other than the first argument
> ignored.
Would be nice. I admit. 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?
>> It is confirmed by other
>> supposedly compliant systems. I've checked before AIX 5.2, Solaris 8/9. Two
>> raisins in the pie are Tru64 5.1B and HP-UX 11, which return some erm,
>> strange results. For such script:
>>
>> #!./main 1 2 3 -#!
>> print ok
>>
>> You get:
>>
>> Main.c test
>> ./main
>> 1 2 3 -#!
>> ./tst.sh
>
> Linux 2.4.20 does this too.
That's as silly as can get. When called as:
interpreter -a1 -a2 -a3 script
the argument parsing done by interpreter must be different then when invoked
via #! mechanics. Argh!
>> The behavior I'd like to have, and which seems correct is not bothering with
>> second, 3rd and so on occurence of #! in the first line of script. Feasible?
>> I guess so. The only commercial product on my systems uses -#! switch on all
>> platforms as a script file mark.
>
> That seems wrong too. #! shouldn't be magic anywhere other than at the
> beginning of a file.
Do you think that -#! argument is magic? Why is it so? It's not magic and
should be passed without exec(2) interference.
>> I don't see any explanation for current
>> behavior therefore I'm reporting it.
>
> The explanation is that we only process that line up to a '#' or
> newline. Backing out revision 1.21 of sys/kern/imgact_shell.c is one
> fix, or perhaps allowing a '#' character to be escaped. I'm not sure if
> I see an overwhelming reason for either.
I don't see a convincing use for comments on the first line of script. Hash
is special already when treated as comment character. # is not a comment in
any `scripting language'. It is a shell legacy and shouldn't be forced on
the remaining universe.
/S
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