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From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:02:48 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101171232320.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110116084330.GA27396@minnie.tuhs.org>

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).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-17 19:02 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 [this message]
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
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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