Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:56:04 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in #! processing - One More Time Message-ID: <p06210227be43cce1cc35@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <421DAD8F.6000704@portaone.com> References: <200410020349.i923nG8v021675@northstar.hetzel.org> <20041002052856.GE17792@nexus.dglawrence.com> <p0611041fbd848f6aa55d@[128.113.24.47]> <20041002233542.GL714@nexus.dglawrence.com> <p0620076ebe2490ccdc00@[128.113.24.47]> <p06210225be4307a39100@[128.113.24.47]> <421DAD8F.6000704@portaone.com>
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At 12:33 PM +0200 2/24/05, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>Or we could do #1 for now, and plan to do #4 after 5.4-release. >>Or do #1 now in 5.3, and go with some incompatible change (#2 >>or #3) only in 6.x-current. >> >>What do people think? ... > >I would vote for making #3 and respective /bin/sh changes and >MFCing them into 5.4. Do you mean "in time for 5.4-release", or do you mean "into 5.4-stable, after 5.4-release is done"? (either way would be fine with me, but I would like to see your change to kern/imgact_shell.c MFC'ed before 5.4-release, even if we don't get #3 done and tested in time for that) >We don't have that many shell scripts that >rely on the previus functionality - ones that in the base system >(if any) can be easily fixed, while ones in /usr/ports can be >conditionalized on OSVERSION. Removing yet another superfluous >difference between FreeBSD and other systems out there is good >thing especially considering that BSD-way creates serious >problems that can't be resolved without changing semantics anyway. The more I think about it, the more I think this is the right idea. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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