Date: 28 Jul 1996 20:07:15 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New wierdness since latest VM kernel. Message-ID: <4tgh9j$os4$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960727205623.284C-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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In article <199607280656.IAA07110@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> As John Fieber wrote:
>
>> > sgmlfmt -f html /usr/src/share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml
>> > /usr/bin/sgmlfmt: 30: Syntax error: "{" unexpected (expecting "then")
>> > *** Error code 2
>>
>> Actully, that would be perl, if it makes any difference.
>
> Not a big one, except that you might not even notice the failure if it
> _were_ a shell script. ;-)
>
> What one can see here is simply that execve() failed (the #! has
> obviously not been interpreted correctly by the kernel, perhaps
> imgact_shell has not been called?), so the invoking shell falls back
> to `old-style' and tries to interpret the script itself.
Ouch, I saw this too, except "#! /bin/sh" was being ignored and tcsh was
trying to start the bourne shell script under $SHELL (tcsh)
It seems to be still happening right now.. :-(
-Peter
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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