From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #!
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:50:29 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11uj5ikl6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5levvf4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:18:07 +0900")
On 2012-08-17 15:18 +0800, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> IIRC, POSIX allows but doesn't require the space. However, some
> historical mostly-compatible shells had problems if there was no
> space. Since it never hurts with fully conforming shells, and
> sometimes helps, it's a definite portability win. (AFAIK there was no
> particular correlation between this kind of non-conformance and other,
> more important, non-conformance.)
From my reading of the two links, separation #! and the path with a
space is abnormal and evidenced by all scripts I can find. So I think
the better default for executable-prefix is "#!", not "#! ".
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-17 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 4:05 Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #! Leo
2012-08-17 5:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-08-17 6:54 ` Leo
2012-08-17 7:06 ` Leo
2012-08-22 17:17 ` Bastien
2012-08-23 0:53 ` Leo
2012-08-23 9:54 ` Bastien
2012-08-24 17:08 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-17 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-17 8:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-17 15:50 ` Leo [this message]
2012-08-17 16:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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