Re: UNIX

[bjb@bigbox.demon.co.uk]

It came to pass that Thomas Schulze was heard to mumble:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > The shell could look at what stands there after the #! and start the 
> > correct program (with UNIXMODE conversion and all...).
> 
> :-) Ok, when the shell has to do the job anyway, why load the kernel
> with the code?
> 
> My vote: Let the library (ie MiNTLib) handle hash bang execution.

I think that it should be somehow transparent to the process running it,
and not needing the MiNTlibs. That way the desktop and other MiNT-unaware
programs can still use shell scripts as if they were binaries.


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