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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:13:13 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: perl4
Message-ID:  <199603200913.KAA07672@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603200347.TAA09181@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 19, 96 07:47:24 pm

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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. ;-)



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