Excerpts from Debian Bug Tracking System's message of Mon Sep 12 04:06:03 +0200 2011: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the linux-2.6 package: > > #488665: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: cannot pass multiple arguments in #! line > > It has been closed by Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Jonathan Nieder > <jrnie...@gmail.com> by > replying to this email. > > Hi Michal, > > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > When running script which has multiple arguments in the #! line the > > arguments are joined into one. This breaks scripts that require multiple > > arguments passed to the interpreter. > [...] > > Observed output of the script: > > ./test|-a -b -c|./test.sh > > > > Expected outout of the script: > > ./test|-a|-b|-c|./test.sh > > Sorry for the long silence. This is a longstanding behavior and, > roughly speaking, by design. See [1] and the surrounding thread for > some context. > > I actually wouldn't mind if someone raises this upstream again. I > don't think it's worth tracking in Debian, though, hence closing the > bug. > > Thanks, > Jonathan > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/182403/focus=184600
It comes at somewhat unfortunate time kernel.org being down and taking quite some time to get back up. Thanks for the reference. Interesting and somewhat sad reading :-s Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1316519577-sup-9...@virtual.ruk.cuni.cz
