From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 17:20:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark
Message-ID: <20050502172012.GD11726@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505020921080.3594@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more 
> portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_ 
> portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	exec perl perlscript.pl "$@"
		if 0;

You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop.

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere