Re: Shebang line on Windows?

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Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, the shell isn't involved in parsing the shebang line at all.
> That's actually done in the kernel by the program loader.  So it's the
> kernel that has a problem with it; wonder if Linus would accept a patch
> to ignore the tailing CR?

Worth a try in my opinion. There's some historical information about the
shebang at http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ There's a
table which says Linux since 2.4.0 removes trailing whitespace from the
shebang line. I guess Linux doesn't count CR as whitespace in this
context.

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Shebang line on Windows? Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-22 18:16 +0000
  Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-22 13:40 -0500
  Re: Shebang line on Windows? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 12:40 -0600
    Re: Shebang line on Windows? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 14:53 -0800
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-22 23:21 +0000
      RE: Shebang line on Windows? "Sells, Fred" <fred.sells@adventistcare.org> - 2013-02-25 12:35 +0000
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-25 08:14 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2013-02-25 07:28 -0600
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 00:54 +1100
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 10:18 -0700
        Re: Shebang line on Windows? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-02-26 16:30 +0200
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2013-02-25 12:29 -0500
        Re: Shebang line on Windows? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-26 00:52 +0000
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 19:08 -0700
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-25 21:23 -0500
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-26 03:08 +0000
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-25 22:44 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 13:19 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 11:29 -0700
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 11:33 -0700

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