[Gllug] Perl 'running' python and bash

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 05:45:32PM +0100, Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:
> Seems a little wierd :-), but,
> that shebang line is there for the invoking program (usually the shell)
> to decide what to run, apache and things like that also listen here,

Not so.  #! is processed by the kernel normally (see
fs/binfmt_script.c in the Linux source).

In this case, however, perl is doing its own #! processing as another
poster in this thread pointed out.  It's for the benefit of people
using substandard operating systems which don't do shebang processing,
so they can set their SHELL to perl and get a similar effect to having
it done in the kernel.

Rich.

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