Bug in #! processing - One More Time

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 12:33 PM +0200 2/24/05, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>Or we could do #1 for now, and plan to do #4 after 5.4-release.
>>Or do #1 now in 5.3, and go with some incompatible change (#2
>>or #3) only in 6.x-current.
>>
>>What do people think?  ...
>
>I would vote for making #3 and respective /bin/sh changes and
>MFCing them into 5.4.

Do you mean "in time for 5.4-release", or
do you mean "into 5.4-stable, after 5.4-release is done"?

(either way would be fine with me, but I would like to see your
change to kern/imgact_shell.c MFC'ed before 5.4-release, even if
we don't get #3 done and tested in time for that)

>We don't have that many shell scripts that
>rely on the previus functionality - ones that in the base system
>(if any) can be easily fixed, while ones in /usr/ports can be
>conditionalized on OSVERSION. Removing yet another superfluous
>difference between FreeBSD and other systems out there is good
>thing especially considering that BSD-way creates serious
>problems that can't be resolved without changing semantics anyway.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the right idea.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu