Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear release team,
> we have not heard from you on this. Could you please clarify your
> policy decision? This was the central question:
> Release Managers, do you think that (upstream-provided) scripts with a
> Perl magic header like
> ,----
> | eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S
> $0 $argv:q'
> | if 0;
> `----
> are inacceptable? Fullquote follows,
I thought Steve followed up and said that yes, they're unacceptable,
because that script magic relies on the script being run by a shell
(something I hadn't realized until he pointed it out). If you try to run
a binary that starts with the above and no #! line via, say, execv inside
a C program, it will fail. It only works from the command line because
the shell falls back on trying to interpret binaries with no valid magic
as shell scripts.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
