From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 01:16:26 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3ZNdz-6gK-9@gated-at.bofh.it> 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. -- "Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil." -- Horace (BC 65-8)