From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 20 01:22:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA16411 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 01:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16228 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 01:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03043 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:20:47 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA08083 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:20:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA07672 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:13:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603200913.KAA07672@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: perl4 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:13:13 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603200347.TAA09181@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 19, 96 07:47:24 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Traina wrote: > If I write C versions of these scripts, will that suffice > to break perl off into a package? > > Hear hear! This is a good thing(TM)! It ain't, but we've been there before. :) > By the way, which is inherantly > broken when executed as any sort of script. It needs to be a shell builtin > or it needs to die. Huh? #!/bin/sh, #!/bin/csh aren't shell builtins either. In fact, all these scripts are acceptable to execve(2), and the shell won't even notice the difference to a binary executable. -- 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. ;-)