"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 23 December 2005 10:24, Frank Küster wrote: > >> The fact that the script is not in the path isn't enough for you here? >> And don't you think that anyone who knows that a shebang lines indicates >> executability from the command line > > shebang line does _not_ indicate executability, it's the magic number that > indicates it's a script instead of machine code (see e.g > http://foldoc.org/?shebang) > > if it's meant to be executable it should have the executable bit set, this > is unrelated from the shebang line (if not what do you do with a script > that's executable for the owner but not for anyone else? automatically > remove the shebang depending on who opens it?)
You are right, but this makes me doubt even more whether having a non-executable file with a shebang line is a bug, because this information is also interesting for human beings. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer