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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:20:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/15782: kernel script handling breaks with perl 
Message-ID:  <200001041220.EAA22283@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/15782; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: arjan@inventionz.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/15782: kernel script handling breaks with perl 
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 14:09:57 +0200

 On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:32:47 PST, arjan@inventionz.org wrote:
 
 > While moving our webserver from OpenBSD to FreeBSD (hurray !), we've
 > seen a lot of perl scripts break on the first line 
 > "#!/usr/bin/perl -*-perl-*-"
 
 What is that supposed to do?  What is the -* option?  I can't see how
 this is supposed to work.
 
 > Now I don't know that this is a good idea, but Laary Wall decided Perl
 > would expect one argument, including whitespace for #!perl
 > scripts.
 
 Where did you get this information?  Take a look at the example given in
 the "Switches" subsection of the perlrun(5) manual page.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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