Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 28 May 2003 06:30:47 -0700:
> The interpretation of #! lines is in the kernel (or, hereabout, > Cygwin1.dll, a kernel by any other name), just as the kernel would how > to handle a binary executable by examining its header. * man execve * Well, well. I knew that some unices had to be doing this because they allowed suid scripts. But I thought the behaviour had been phased out of newer versions. (Because Linux and the like don't allow suid scripts, I assumed that this whole script-handling behaviour had been moved out of the kernel.) I learn something new every day. Thanks. :-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/