From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:43:30 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix Message-ID: <20110116084330.GA27396@minnie.tuhs.org> Hi all, best wishes for 2011. I had an e-mail from Sven Mascheck asking about the history of #! interpretation in System V. I couldn't find any #! code in the kernels before SysVR4. However, I thought I'd pass the query onto the TUHS list, in case others can shed some light on the question. Did SysV systems before r4 do #! interpretation, and if so where was it done: kernel, library, shell? Any code references, e.g. function names etc.? Many thanks, Warren