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

[Florent Thoumie]

On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> # gad at FreeBSD.org / 2005-06-09 12:37:20 -0400:
>
>> [moved over from the thread:
>>        Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_shell.c
>> on the cvs-src mailing list...]
>>
>> At 11:03 AM -0500 6/9/05, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Well, I dunno what part of it is giving troubles (and I haven't seen
>>> it myself, since I'm still on RELENG_5 for the moment; just  
>>> keeping my
>>> eyes open).  It doesn't seem like a terribly esoteric line though:
>>>
>>> #!/usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0 -doutput_buffering=1
>>>
>>
>> It is very likely that the problem which is being seen with this
>> script is due to the change in parsing I committed on May 28th.
>> Before the change, php would have been started up with:
>>
>>            [0] ->  /usr/local/bin/php
>>            [1] ->  -n
>>            [2] ->  -q
>>            [3] ->  -dsafe_mode=0
>>            [4] ->  -doutput_buffering=1
>>            [5] ->  /usr/local/bin/name-of-script
>>         [6...] ->  parameters specified by user
>>
>> and now php is being started with:
>>
>>            [0] ->  /usr/local/bin/php
>>            [1] ->  -n -q -dsafe_mode=0 -doutput_buffering=1
>>            [2] ->  /usr/local/bin/name-of-script
>>         [3...] ->  parameters specified by user
>>
>> Assuming 'php' does not know what to do when all those options are
>> glommed together in a single argument, then the above script would
>> not work right on any other operating systems either.  The change
>> I made on the 28th gets FreeBSD to work more like other OS's when
>> it comes to parsing that #!-line in scripts.
>>
>
>     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.

     FreeBSD needed special handling, no it doesn't anymore.

     I'm not sure that's losing a *competitive* advantage.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org