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From: cyrille.lefevre-lists@laposte.net (Cyrille Lefevre)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:10:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D366439.8020808@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101171232320.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net>

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Le 17/01/2011 20:02, Jeremy C. Reed a écrit :
>
> 4BSD (4.0) usr/src/sys/sys/TODO (of Nov.  9, 1980) says it was planned:
>
> 	6. Exec fixes
>          	Implement dmr's #! feature; pass string arguments through
> 		faster.
>
> And the usr/src/sys/newsys/sys1.c has explanation of it and source code.
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src/sys/sys/TODO
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src/sys/newsys/sys1.c
>
> This seems to indicate the idea was not developed separately at
> Berkeley.
>
> It was introduced into BSD by April 1981. For 2BSD (2.8) it was added by
> Dec. 16, 1981 when built with MENLO_SCRIPT defined (but I don't see that
> documented or defined).

Hi,

yet another reference but more in the spirit of what csh does, it only 
checks for a simple hash (#), no explaim mark (!), and is enclosed in 
UCB_SCRIPT define.

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/src/sys/sys/sys1.c

2.11 BSD seems to have an enhanced version of this feature in the sense 
where the shell path may be followed by some arguments (i.e.: /bin/sh -x)

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/sys/sys/kern_exec.c

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists at laposte.net





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-16  8:43 Warren Toomey
2011-01-16  9:55 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 13:20   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 17:17     ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 19:19       ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 20:17         ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 20:42           ` Larry McVoy
2011-01-16 21:08           ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 21:37             ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 16:35               ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 20:47                 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 10:09           ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-16 10:53 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-01-17 16:25   ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 19:02 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:51   ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 22:41     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:58   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-19  4:10   ` Cyrille Lefevre [this message]
2011-01-19 20:35     ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-20  4:09       ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-28 19:38   ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-30 15:05     ` Sven Mascheck

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