From: Matt Mackall Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 01:29:21 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Message-ID: <20050503012921.GD22038@waste.org> In-Reply-To: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:16:26AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote: > >> 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; > > exec may fail. > > #!/bin/sh > exec perl -x $0 ${1+"$@"} || exit 127 > #!perl > > >> You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop. > > > > This would _not_ be "perlscript.pl" itself. This is the shell-script, and > > it's not called ".pl". > > In this thread, it originally was. In this thread, it was originally a Python script. In particular, one aimed at managing the Linux kernel source. I'm going to use /usr/bin/env, systems where that doesn't exist can edit the source. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.