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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:56:04 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in #! processing - One More Time
Message-ID:  <p06210227be43cce1cc35@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <421DAD8F.6000704@portaone.com>
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At 12:33 PM +0200 2/24/05, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>Or we could do #1 for now, and plan to do #4 after 5.4-release.
>>Or do #1 now in 5.3, and go with some incompatible change (#2
>>or #3) only in 6.x-current.
>>
>>What do people think?  ...
>
>I would vote for making #3 and respective /bin/sh changes and
>MFCing them into 5.4.

Do you mean "in time for 5.4-release", or
do you mean "into 5.4-stable, after 5.4-release is done"?

(either way would be fine with me, but I would like to see your
change to kern/imgact_shell.c MFC'ed before 5.4-release, even if
we don't get #3 done and tested in time for that)

>We don't have that many shell scripts that
>rely on the previus functionality - ones that in the base system
>(if any) can be easily fixed, while ones in /usr/ports can be
>conditionalized on OSVERSION. Removing yet another superfluous
>difference between FreeBSD and other systems out there is good
>thing especially considering that BSD-way creates serious
>problems that can't be resolved without changing semantics anyway.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the right idea.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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