Re: Bug in #! processing - "pear broken on current"

From: Florent Thoumie (flz_at_xbsd.org)
Date: 06/10/05

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To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>

    On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

    > # gad@FreeBSD.org / 2005-06-09 12:37:20 -0400:
    >
    >> [moved over from the thread:
    >> Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_shell.c
    >> on the cvs-src mailing list...]
    >>
    >> At 11:03 AM -0500 6/9/05, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> Well, I dunno what part of it is giving troubles (and I haven't seen
    >>> it myself, since I'm still on RELENG_5 for the moment; just
    >>> keeping my
    >>> eyes open). It doesn't seem like a terribly esoteric line though:
    >>>
    >>> #!/usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0 -doutput_buffering=1
    >>>
    >>
    >> It is very likely that the problem which is being seen with this
    >> script is due to the change in parsing I committed on May 28th.
    >> Before the change, php would have been started up with:
    >>
    >> [0] -> /usr/local/bin/php
    >> [1] -> -n
    >> [2] -> -q
    >> [3] -> -dsafe_mode=0
    >> [4] -> -doutput_buffering=1
    >> [5] -> /usr/local/bin/name-of-script
    >> [6...] -> parameters specified by user
    >>
    >> and now php is being started with:
    >>
    >> [0] -> /usr/local/bin/php
    >> [1] -> -n -q -dsafe_mode=0 -doutput_buffering=1
    >> [2] -> /usr/local/bin/name-of-script
    >> [3...] -> parameters specified by user
    >>
    >> Assuming 'php' does not know what to do when all those options are
    >> glommed together in a single argument, then the above script would
    >> not work right on any other operating systems either. The change
    >> I made on the 28th gets FreeBSD to work more like other OS's when
    >> it comes to parsing that #!-line in scripts.
    >>
    >
    > The pear people have hacked around the other OS's limitations.
    >
    > This change makes FreeBSD lose one small but fine competitive
    > advantage over other unix-like systems. Pity.

         FreeBSD needed special handling, no it doesn't anymore.

         I'm not sure that's losing a *competitive* advantage. 

    -- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@xbsd.org
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