Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 2, 2005, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505021031070.3594@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050502171802.GA28045@nevyn.them.org>

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> 
> Do you know any vaguely Unix-like system where #!/usr/bin/env does not
> work?  I don't; I've used it on Solaris, HP-UX, OSF/1...

I've used unixes where "#!" didn't work.

Things like bash still have support for such unixes, I think - you can tell them to parse the #! line themselves, to make it appear to do the right thing.

Are these common? Hell no. But they definitely existed.

		Linus

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