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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:26:43 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950815102617.19796K-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508150850.SAA21739@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> 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().

The point being that it has nothing to do with the argument about make 
interpreting shell metacharacters.

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