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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dfr@render.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
Cc: current@freebsd.org, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu
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>> FYI: GNU-make use a similar algorithm 
>> (first exec and if errno=ENOEXEC SHELL).

>I think this is just to allow it to execute 'unlabeled' shell scripts, 
>i.e. executable files without the #!/bin/sh comment.

execvp() should already do this, but some systems (Linux :-) have a buggy
execvp().

Bruce